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Secrets Life  Human Machine and How it Works Moment Conception
Presented anonymously through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
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Secrets of Life - The Human Machine and How it Works: The Moment of Conception
image: 202 × 285 mm
Presented anonymously through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
<p><b>P01965</b> [from] CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY MACHINE 1970 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-secrets-of-life-the-human-machine-and-how-it-works-perception-through-impression-p01961" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01961</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-genot-to-unimate-untitled-robot-commander-and-boy-p01984" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01984</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-genot-to-unimate-genot-p11003" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P11003</span></a>; complete]
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<br/>24 sheets inscribed ‘Eduardo Paolozzi 1970’ bottom right and ‘9/24’. I sheet (cancelled proof) inscribed ‘Eduardo Paolozzi 1970’ bottom right and ‘⅓’
<br/>25 etchings, printed and published by Editions Alecto, various sizes
<br/>Presented anonymously through the Friends of the Tate 1980
<br/>Lit: op.cit., nos.63–86
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<br/>This <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/portfolio" title="Glossary definition for 'Portfolio'"><span>portfolio</span></a> was the first for which Paolozzi used photogravure. The source material, drawn from his own stocks of magazines and science journals, was photographed and transferred to <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>etching</span></a> plates. The set is divided into four sections of six <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> each: ‘Secrets of Life - The Human Machine and How it Works’, ‘Manikins for Destruction’, ‘Pages from the Aerospace Medical Library’, and ‘From Genot to Unimate’. The first section (titled from a book Paolozzi was given in Paris in 1948) deals with the human body and methods of explaining its functions. ‘Manikins for Destruction’ deals with traffic accident simulations, and ‘Pages from the Aerospace Medical Library’ with aerospace experiments. The last section presents robots, real or as toys and humanoid or purely mechanical.
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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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