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Calcium Light Night
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-eduardo-paolozzi-1738" aria-label="More by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Eduardo Paolozzi</a>
Central Park in Dark Some 40 Years Ago
Presented anonymously through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
abstraction
artist’s notes
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
film, music and ballet
formal qualities
geometric
inscriptions
lifestyle and culture
literature and fiction
monochromatic
music: Ives, Charles
musical analogy
non-representational
repetition
society
symbols and personifications
paper print screenprint
Central Park in the Dark Some 40 Years Ago
image: 788 × 511 mm
Presented anonymously through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
<p><b>P01993</b> [from] CALCIUM LIGHT NIGHT 1974–6 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-allegro-moderato-firemans-parade-p01992" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01992</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-from-early-italian-poets-p01999" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01999</span></a>; <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-nettleton-p07621" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07621</span></a>; complete]
<br/>Four inscribed ‘Eduardo Paolozzi 1974’ bottom right, four inscribed ‘1975’.
<br/>Eight screenprints, printed at Advanced Graphics and published by the artist in an edition of 200, (the 9th print of this set was purchased later in 1982: P 07621), in range 27 1/2 × 20 1/8 – 31 1/8× 20 1/8 (69.7 × 51 –78.8 × 51.1)
<br/>Presented anonymously through the Friends of the Tate 1980
<br/>Lit: op.cit., nos.177–185
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<br/>The nine <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> of the complete set are individually titled: ‘Allegro Moderato Fireman's Parade’ 1974, ‘Central Park in the Dark Some 40 Years Ago’ 1974, ‘The Children's Hour’ 1974, ‘Largo to Presto’ 1974, ‘Aeschylus and Socrates’ 1975, ‘Calcium Light Night’ 1975, ‘Four German Songs’ 1975, ‘From Early Italian Poets’ 1975 and ‘Nettleton’ 1976. This set contains references to the life and works of Charles Ives. It was begun while Paolozzi was in Berlin in 1974 and printed at Advanced Graphics between 1974 and 1976. It was to have been published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, but Paolozzi took over the whole <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> and published it himself. Paolozzi made imagery related to music and musical notation in this and other works of the mid 1970s. He used a vocabulary of shapes and patterns developed from earlier <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprints</span></a> through wooden <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>reliefs</span></a> (especially the ceiling <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panels</span></a> for Cleish Castle in Scotland, completed in 1975) and back to prints again in screenprints, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/woodcut" title="Glossary definition for 'Woodcut'"><span>woodcuts</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a>.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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abstraction artist’s notes diagrammatic emotions, concepts and ideas film, music and ballet formal qualities geometric inscriptions lifestyle and culture literature and fiction monochromatic musical analogy music: Ives, Charles non-representational repetition society symbols and personifications