Eduardo Paolozzi & Jasia Reichardt: The History of Nothing and Other Excursions yarliallison The Holburne Museum

The Holburne Museum

Tishani Doshi

Reevaluating experiments in fashion

He stuffs his film - one of the first to feature an all rocknroll soundtrack - with the symbols of their generation - motorcycles

and lingerie were the talk of the town as was the globetrotting

Eduardo Paolozzi & Jasia Reichardt: The History of Nothing and Other Excursions yarliallison The Holburne MuseumArt Publishing Inc., 2024, 160 pages, 33 x 25 cm In 1962 Eduardo Paolozzi made his famous film History of Nothing. A surrealist collage in time, it is a twelve minute paean to the broad and mysterious culture of the mid twentieth century. In 1975 the curator and critic Jasia Reichardt, in collaboration with Paolozzi, wrote The History of Nothing and Other Excursions, a fascinating and previously unpublished essay about the making and ideas that