Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rose and Chris Prater
Collection
As Is When
<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>
Assembling Reminders a Particular Purpose
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
abstraction
colour
education, science and learning
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
geometric
inscriptions
irregular forms
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
non-representational
pattern
philosophy, Wittgenstein
quotation
society
symbols and personifications
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
<p>The life and theories of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein inspired this sequence of screenprints. Each print includes quotations from Wittgenstein''s own writings or passages from a biography. The collages of fragmented images relate to these texts. Paolozzi has described the prints as ''a kind of combined autobiography''. His Italian background led him to identify with Wittgenstein as ''a foreigner in England'', who shared an interest in engineering and a love of cinema. He has also drawn parallels between Wittgenstein''s theories of language and his own artistic practice.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print screenprint
2 November 2001 – 23 March 2003
2003-03-23
2 November 2001 – 23 March 2003
2003-03-23
2001-11-02
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2001-11-02
Eduardo Paolozzi
Collection based display
Assembling Reminders for a Particular Purpose
image: 816 × 510 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999979" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Rose and Chris Prater</a> through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
<p>The life and theories of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein inspired this sequence of <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>. Each <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>print</span></a> includes quotations from Wittgenstein''s own writings or passages from a biography. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/collage" title="Glossary definition for 'Collage'"><span>collages</span></a> of fragmented images relate to these texts. Paolozzi has described the prints as ''a kind of combined autobiography''. His Italian background led him to identify with Wittgenstein as ''a foreigner in England'', who shared an interest in engineering and a love of cinema. He has also drawn parallels between Wittgenstein''s theories of language and his own artistic practice.
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abstraction colour education, science and learning emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities geometric inscriptions irregular forms literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) non-representational pattern philosophy, Wittgenstein quotation society symbols and personifications Wittgenstein, Ludwig