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There is a Cruel Irony here. Eduardo is Knighted by the same government
that wrongly Interred his Italian Grandfather and Father,
as Enemy Aliens, and additionally were so hysterical that they felt it was
necessary to transport them to Canada, which meant that they had to be sent
across the North Atlantic, teeming with German Submarines, which of course
sunk their ship, resulting in their deaths !!!!

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, of Italian parents,
Paolozzi settled in London and had his first solo exhibit there at 23. His
early works were witty collages that he made from magazine cutouts of tuna
fish cans, screen idols, cartoon characters and other staples of
middle-class culture. He considered those images as metaphors for the
dreams of the masses. Critics later linked them to the start of the British
Pop Art movement.

During his childhood in Scotland, Paolozzi's parents expected him to go
into the family business, making and selling ice cream, but was more
interested in the labels, packaging and advertisements. He used product
labels for some of his early collages.

Paolozzi went to a youth camp in Italy for several summers. After Italy
entered World War II, he and his father were sent to an internment camp as
Enemy Aliens in 1940, when he was 16. Paolozzi's father and grandfather
were being transported to Canada when their ship was torpedoed and sank.
Both died.

The sinking of the 'Arandora Star', July 2, 1940 on its way to Canada,
loaded with 1,864 souls compressed into a ship built to take 250
passengers, that included 717 Italian civilians interned after June 10,
1940.Also on board were some Italian internees from internment camps on the
Isle of Man, many of whom were genuine refugees mistakenly selected for
deportation.  The majority of the Italian expatriates had lived in Britain
most of their lives.

453 Italians perished, and of all aboard only 813 survived, substantially
because not enough life-jackets had been provided, the rafts were lashed
immovably to the ship, there had been no life-boat drill and all decks were
partitioned by impenetrable barbed wire, cutting off access to the
life-boats.
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Los Angeles Times
By Mary Rourke
Times Staff Writer
April 30, 2005

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, a sculptor and printmaker who helped found the
British Pop Art movement of the 1950s, has died. He was 81.

Paolozzi died in his sleep April 22 in a London hospital, said Ben Lawrence
of the Flowers East Gallery in London, which represented him. Paolozzi had
been in failing health after suffering a stroke, Lawrence said, but had
attended the opening of an exhibit of his sculpture at the gallery four
days before his death.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, of Italian parents, Paolozzi settled in London
and had his first solo exhibit there at 23. His early works were witty
collages that he made from magazine cutouts of tuna fish cans, screen
idols, cartoon characters and other staples of middle-class culture. He
considered those images as metaphors for the dreams of the masses. Critics
later linked them to the start of the British Pop Art movement.

In 1952, Paolozzi helped form an association of British artists who were
working along similar lines. They called themselves the Independent Group
and included Richard Hamilton, William Turnbull and Peter Blake.

At their first public gathering, Paolozzi gave a lecture illustrated with a
slideshow of his collages, where cars, kitchen appliances and other
mass-produced objects were treated as icons of popular culture. The British
art critic Lawrence Alloway, who was associated with the group, recognized
an art movement in the making and named it Pop.

Paolozzi also sculpted robot-like bronze figures that appeared to be part
human and part machine. He created textile designs and mosaics as well.

He is perhaps best known for a huge, flowing mosaic with Pop Art imagery
that he designed for the Tottenham Court Road subway station in London in
the 1970s. Other public works by Paolozzi were sculpture commissions,
including a 1997 bronze of Sir Isaac Newton that stands outside the British
Library.

Through much of his career, Paolozzi was a teacher of ceramics, textile
design and sculpture, primarily at the Royal College of Art in London and
the Kuenste in Munich.

His work was included in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and in
the United States, including the 1984 exhibit "The Automobile and Culture"
at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Paolozzi was elected to the Royal Academy in 1979 and knighted in 1989.

During his childhood in Scotland, Paolozzi's parents expected him to go
into the family business, making and selling ice cream. He helped out with
the work, but was more interested in the labels, packaging and
advertisements. He used product labels for some of his early collages.

His father sent Paolozzi to a youth camp in Italy for several summers.
After Italy entered World War II, he and his father were sent to an
internment camp as enemy aliens in 1940. Paolozzi's father and grandfather
were being transported to Canada when their ship was torpedoed and sank.
Both died.

Released from internment camp, he attended Edinburgh College of Art, but
was drafted into the Pioneer Corps, an auxiliary of the British Army, in
1943. He served for about one year, and on discharge, he entered the Slade
School of Art in England. He did not graduate but moved to Paris, where he
lived from 1947 to 1949.

Returning to London, Paolozzi married Freda Elliot, a textile designer, in
1951. They had three daughters, who survive him; their marriage ended in
divorce.

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