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Conditional Probability Machine
<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>
Genot to Unimate Sim One
Presented anonymously through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
actions: postures and motions
adults
doctor
drip
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
health and welfare
hospital
interiors
lying down
man
medical
medical
medical apparatus
objects
patient
people
photographic
public and municipal
scientific and measuring
society
test dummy
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paper print etching
From Genot to Unimate: Sim One
image: 162 × 194 mm
Presented anonymously through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
<p><b>P01979</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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actions: postures and motions adults doctor drip emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities health and welfare hospital interiors lying down man medical medical medical apparatus objects patient people photographic public and municipal scientific and measuring society test dummy work and occupations