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Eduardo Paolozzi's Faraday
Eduardo Paolozzi's Faraday
Discover a giant of science at the University of Birmingham, a monumental bronze sculpture over five metres tall and one of Paolozzi's last public artworks. Gregory Salter, author of 'Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain', unpacks the ways in which masculinity, science, and education all contribute to this mighty yet fractured figure.
Time Period:
20th century
Gregory Salter is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Birmingham. He researches and teaches on art from Britain after 1945, focusing particularly on sexuality, gender, and migration in this period. He published a book Art And Masculinity In Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home in 2019, and is currently researching a transnational history of art from Britain between 1957 and 1988.
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