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Posted by dan michaels on January 12, 2007, 11:49 am
johnston...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone here might be able to assist me in
> identifying a robot from (I think) the late 1940s? It appears in
> several collages (ca.1950) by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi, who I am
> currently researching for my doctoral dissertation. So far I have had
> no luck finding information about it, and would really appreciate
> anything anyone could tell me. There is an image of it here:
> http://johnston.rs.googlepages.com/robot
> Thanks very much,
> Ryan
Hi Ryan. Not a specific I.D., but more info on the Paolozzi collages.
You might try to rundown the book "Robots: Fact, Fiction, and
Prediction" by Jasia Reichardt, Penguin Books, 1978. We have a copy in
the local public liblrary. Tons of good pictures on pre-modern robots.
Your "robot" of interest is shown on page 53 of the book, in a
photograph of Paolozzi's called "Dr. Dekker's Entrance Hall", 1960-2,
and being from The History of Nothing collection, Anthony d'Offay,
London.
>From the looks of it, it's really not a robot, just a mechanical frame,
basically mechanical sculpture art. Something commissioned for a rich
man's drawing room. BTW, the book shows several other Paolozzi stills.
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> I was wondering if anyone here might be able to assist me in
> identifying a robot from (I think) the late 1940s?