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PAOLOZZI, Eduardo (1924-2005). General Dynamic F.U.N. Volume II of Moonstrips Empire News. [Volume B.] London: Alecto Editions, 1970. Folio (381 x 254mm). Title, introduction by J. G. Ballard, 47 screenprints and photolithographs printed by Richard Davis after Eduardo Paolozzi only (of 50), each stamped on the verso with the number, title and a facsimile of the artist's signature, unbound as issued in original acrylic resin box. TITLE AND 5 PLATES (only) SIGNED IN PENCIL AND NUMBERED 116/350 BY THE ARTIST. The signed and numbered "plates" are as follows: "708. Why children commit suicide ... read next month's issue"; "709. An Empire of Silly Statistics ... A Fake War for Public Relations"; "714. Inside Down Under ... What are the building blocks of structuralism?"; "718. Totems and Taboos of the Nine-to-Five Day"; and "727. Jesus colour by numbers." Despite being numbered, the plates are not intended to be placed in any particular order. "Early in 1965, Eduardo Paolozzi began work on a massive project to create from his eclectic and unique collection of twentieth century ephemera a definitive statement of modern man and his dilemma, in the form of a 500 page book. The first volume of this project, 'Moonstrips Empire News', comprising 100 pages of images and text, was screenprinted at Kelpra Studios, London, and published by Editions Alecto in 1967. In the second volume, 'General Dynamic F.U.N.', Eduardo Paolozzi has broken still further away from accepted fine art printing techniques by brilliantly exploiting the potential of photolithography as well as screenprinting" (from the general introduction). "... Here the familiar materials of our everyday lives, the jostling iconographies of mass advertising and consumer goods, are manipulated to reveal their true identities. For those who can read its pages, 'General Dynamic F.U.N.' is a unique guidebook to the electric garden of our minds" (from J. G. Ballard's introduction).