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Creator:
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1924–2005
Published by Editions Alecto Ltd.
Title:
Wild Track for Ludwig (text page)
Part Of:

Collective Title: As Is When

Date:
1965
Materials & Techniques:
Screen print on H.P. J. Green 133 lbs. white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 38 × 26 inches (96.5 × 66 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Studio mark: Editions Alecto

Lettered over entire sheet: "Wild Track for Ludwig | The Kakafon Kakkoon Laka con Elektrik Lafs | The first of the four labyrinths, stagy, divided as it is into long dialogue scenes formally framed by a limited number of establishing shots, | yet no the teacher steps aside of the doors, the battens being held in position by four glorified screw eyes, as used in most theatres for a | like purpose, or stout and strong gimlets would answer, dwarfing such objects as naturally develop to a great size, but art likewise fond | of unnaturally developing objects which in the wild state are insignificant. Aeroplanes, Horse-races, Boat races and the like, have a certain | popular value Mechanised melody Melodious interpretation of mechanical theme . . consistently medium tempo. The continuous| melody is on strings and brass with french horn predominant, supported by staccato wood wind and muted brass phrases. Definite | ending. The buildings leaving behind only stone and bits of rubble and he replies "What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards | and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand" Juxtapositions, they would find out the connections between the | two pictures for themselves. They would guess what the pictures meant to say. They would be the artists whose imaginations observe | the Laocoon group with care. To my surprise I have found several crucial restorations that have significantly changed the composition of | the group but have not been taken into accound in its recent reconstructions. The correction of these faults might choose for example, | not the white or the black box but the box which was to the right or left, in accordance with its experience in the previous test. This | would be wheels which were of brass and had eight spokes, give the meaning but destroy the picture. The sense is here, however, | nothing; the picture everything. Juxtapositions had been born. The plane is nearing the target. From the inner-phones come the pilot's warning; Pilot to bombardier--On course and flying level" . As now placed, the sun semms fixed by the coils and base that join him and | his father in a relief ; hour on hour they kept up this busy whirl, stopping for neither meat nor drink, until finally the Bedouin's horseswould drop in their tracks, and the riders would fall from their saddles panting and exhausted. He began to give instruction, although | he talked of something different. Point of the composition which in its main lines is carried up and back, like a great wave by the | twisting movement of the central figure and the complementary forms of the flanking sons. That only the first test of the memory series | would be of value as an indication of the existence of a previously acquired habit. Even under the conditionsof no shock and no stop | nothing is too great, nothing too trivial to ask ; the heavens must resound with the blows of his hammer, and his left hand must indeed | relax hold of his sack-mouth if all petitions are granted on that day. A dull thunder, a rolling sound, from the height surrounding | Rizza . . it was the sound of the guns, of the wagons, of the footseps thatpulled ever towards thin wooden rods, then wound round the | rods. The length of the threads must allow the actress to cross the stage and disappear into the side wings in which the action was | unified in a comparatively shallow space. All this nonsense may thrill the misinformed multitudes, but its usefulness ends right there. | For the flight testing of aircraft is a careful. studied science almost totally without heroics of the Hollywood variety. Two wooden | partitions which are pivoted on their main vertical axes so that they could be placed in either of the positions indicated how the deepest | emotion produced by the first could prejudice the one that follows. Any want of effect in the second must be owing to its inherent want | of pathos. A cord A. In the diagram a forest scene is being changed into a cottage interior the bottom of the scene that moves across the | stage has a few domes of silence hammered in. The sun sank with its burning arrows. The soldiers marched, bowed and grim. The air | boiled thickly and threatened to choke them. The hills on the left held their breath. A solitary cloud on the horizon. Dull clothes being | blown about. The actress leaning forward as though struggling against the wind, as she walks away from the manipulator of the threads. | A scene of inevitable destruction. The younger son. helpless. his legs bound, his body crumpling, lapses into unconsciousness and death, | fatally wounded. The band played while members of the engineering department brought out ropes and pullies, cables and derricks. | beams. The general public knows little of him. But he has a softer side. He has written a poem, its last lines run " did you hear what the | bird said ?" " I did" said Algebra "it is made in small pieces". That a man has been taught the ordinary use of the words "the same" in the | cases of "the same shape". "the same length" give point to his argument, the Grand Master then conducted his audience to another part | of the forest. Can the dancer learn a regular labyrinth path more quickly than an irregular one 7 Now to the left, now to the right running | in circles. passing through it would eliminate the extraordinary cleavage of directions. Pictorial figures may be substituted for circles. | Safeguarding the operation of these elevators free flowing scrawl work designs of a floral character. Stage effects sound of heavy beams | falling. which sound may be got by a muffled big drum or a heavy piece of wood. as a post is held vertically and brought down with a | thud upon the stage. The hand. palm up in a gesture eloquent of horror and futility, like the forearm was bent backward and down, in the | direction of various sound effects required from time to time as birds singing, a policeman 's or railway guards whistle. ducks quacking, a | fog horn for a ship at sea and other semi-musical instruments, all of which suffer from no lack of systematic books. No nation in the | world surpasses us in the faculty of deducing from a couple of definitions and tremble at the idea of soon seeing Medea in her | unmitigated ferocity. our imagination far outstripping the slightest attempt at symmetrical arrangement ; indeed, anything like uniformity | or balance of parts appears to be studiously avoided in these groupings. Wind is graphically expressed, birds are perched cleanly cut and | perforate patterns the trees waving in the summer breeze. in Autumn stripping blasts, and with barren branches weighed down with | winter snows; firmly anchored to the wrist, by its const,icting motion the reptile also pulls the lower arm down, lifting the elbow and | severely averting butterflies. and symbols of various kinds. As a distant castle suddenly becoming ruins or disappearing altogether. and a | forest taking its place, or it may be an interior scene with bare walls, when instantly three houses collapsed with all their furniture, and the | fire department had to be called out to prevent any explosions size, imagination can hear him cry, if he cry imagination can neither mount | a step higher, nor fall a step lower without seeing him and certain elements acquire new meaning intensely baroque in nature. The | younger son's death becomes a surprise, the head of the snake, that point which leaves the observer to imagine the crisis without actually | showing it, and in uniting with this not so essentially transitory as to become offensive when the first company had returned. How | miserable the poor devils looked with their faces pale as ashes, with weary deep-sunk eyes, he like a plane of action common to the three | figures. There is, however, no continuous connection fixing this position. But his home was in Berlin, and when he laughed he opened a | tremendous mouth, the simple opening of the mouth, apart from !he violent

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Under Copyright
Accession Number:
B1995.3.2
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Access:
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Link:
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