Eduardo Paolozzi: A selection of works from 1963-66

Artist: Eduardo Paolozzi 
Author: Not listed 
Publisher: Robert Fraser Gallery, London 
Date: April 1966 
Condition: Clean and complete internally, the silvered cover show a few handling marks and signs of damp along the top edge. The plastic spiral binding is now a little fragile (as one might expect) and is missing two rings.

This is classic piece of 60s graphic design from one of those foremost figures of the time, Gordon House. If you look in the back of so many gallery catalogues of the 60s, Gordon's name appears there and that combination of clean typefaces and interesting placement, plenty of white space around images and the use of other materials, often unusual, is the hallmark of his style and was much imitated.

This Paolozzi exhibition, held in April 1966 at the Robert Fraser Gallery, drops us straight back in time to Swinging London - literally, as Time Magazine's famous cover using the phrase was released on 15th April. Wilson's Labour government had just been returned to power, The Beatles were soon to release Revolver, Ronnie Kray was getting into hot water (again) and England's World Cup football campaign would begin very shortly afterwards.

Paolozzi's sculptures were so much of the moment, abstract, jazzy, shiny, industrial and just a little trippy and they were being shown by Frazer, one of the coolest figures in the London art scene. Heading out for drinks or supper or dancing, armed with your spiral bound silver catalogue after the private view at Fraser's Duke Street gallery, you might have felt yourself at the centre of the happening art universe!