21 September 2011

The Jet Age Compendium: Paolozzi at Ambit – I just bought this yesterday at the South London Gallery bookshop. Designed by John Morgan for Four Corner Books, this special edition version of Ambit unites Poalozzi's work for Ambit in a single volume.














The content attempts to tackle the war in Vietnam, the acceleration of Japanese technology, and the utopias of mass advertising. A 2009 exhibition at Raven Row followed the book by bringing together the array of collages, visual essays, magazine adverts and fragments which together challenge the boundaries between text and image. I have always been a fan of artist's publications, but for me this book is a perfect balance of art and design.

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