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Eduardo Paolozzi, I Was a Rich Man's Plaything (1947)

This piece, with its prominent POP!, part of the Bunk! series that Paolozzi assembled, is ground zero for Pop Art.

Fourteen years before Lichtenstein and Warhol soared to fame on Ben-Day dots and soup cans, Paolozzi created collages using the kind of deconstruction, juxtaposition, and recontextualization that came to be associated with postmodern art, generally, and Pop Art, specifically.

Paolozzi, along with John McHale and the Independent Group, were trailblazers for much of British postwar art and design.

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