- Title:
- Wittgenstein at the Cinema Admires Betty Gable
- Date:
- 1965
- Medium:
- Screen print on white 133 lbs. H.P. J. Green wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 38 × 26 inches (96.5 × 66 cm) and Image: 32 1/4 × 19 3/4 inches (81.9 × 50.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed 'Eduardo Paolozzi 1965' and '36/65'; image includes printed words: 'Wittgenstein was always exhausted by his lectures. He was | also revolted by them. He felt disgusted with what he had said | and with himself. Often he would rush of to a cinema imme- | diately after the class ended. As the members of the class began | to move their chairs out of the room he might look imploringly | at a friend and say in a low tone, 'Could you go to a flick?' On | the way to the cinema Wittgenstein would buy a bun or cold | pork pie and munch it while he watched the film. He insisted | on sitting in the very first row of seats, so that the screen would | occupy his entire field of vision, and his mind would be | turned away from the thoughts of the lecture and his feelings | of revulsion. Once he whispered to me 'This is like a shower | bath!' His observation of the film was not relaxed or detached. | He leaned tensely forward in his seat and rarely took his eyes | off the scree
Printer's blind embossing: "ea"
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: "Eduardo Paolozzi 1965"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Information
- Accession Number:
- B1995.3.14
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Pop Art : US / UK Connections 1956-66 (The Menil Collection, 2001-01-26 - 2001-05-13)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4810
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Eduardo Paolozzi, 1924–2005, British, Wittgenstein at the Cinema Admires Betty Gable, 1965
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