CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/9/2017

Eduardo Paolozzi

"Diana as an Engine I" (1963) is reproduced from the superbly made catalog to Whitechapel Gallery's current Eduardo Paolozzi retrospective. Spanning four decades and ranging from tapestry and fabric design to record covers, ceramics, collage, cast metal sculpture and, above all, prints, this volume miraculously manages to capture the spirit and prolific output of one of the most incorrigibly experimental artists of the twentieth century, an irreverent pioneer of Pop art with a "magpie sensibility" and a deep-seated need for reinvention. Whitechapel director Iwona Blazwick writes, "He is like an anthropologist who sees industrial design and ancient ruins, western and non-western visual cultural, fine art and comic books, forms of reflection and signals of communication, organic and human life as one great continuum."