Eduardo Paolozzi's Bunk!

“Ready-made metaphors for the dreams of the masses” is how Scottish Pop Artist Eduardo Paolozzi, who is regarded as one of the founders of the British Pop Art movement, described his collages.

Bunk! is a series of prints and collages which are mainly made from magazines given to the artist by American ex-servicemen. They show Paolozzi’s fascination with popular culture and technology, as well as with the glamour of American consumerism.

The series was created in 1972 and were seen as revolutionary. They are now regarded as one of the earliest examples of British pop art.

The term ‘bunk’ is short for ‘bunkum’, and American slang for rubbish or nonsense. It also refers to the American car manufacturer Henry Ford's famous statement that "history is more or less bunk”.