Of the few British artists who came to international prominence soon after the second world war, Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, who has died aged 81, was one of the most inventive, prolific and various. Chiefly a sculptor (and one of the first to react against the all-pervading influence of Henry Moore), he was also a highly original printmaker some of whose collage-based silkscreened images are among the finest examples of pop art - the style he was instrumental in shaping.
Paolozzi's career was the more remarkable for its unpromising beginnings. His parents, immigrants to Scotland from the remote...
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