- Title:
- He Must, So To Speak, Throw Away the Ladder
- Part Of:
- 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), Image: 30 7/8 × 21 1/4 inches (78.4 × 54 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "36/65" Image includes the words: 'Meine Satze erlautem dadurch, das sie der, welcher mich versteht, am Ende als unsinnig erkennet, wenn er durch sie - auf ihnen - uber sie hinausgestiegen ist. (Er mus sozusagen die Leiter wegwerfen, nachdem er auf ihr hinaufgestiegen ist.) | Er mus diese Satze uberwinden, dahn sieht er die Welt richtig. | Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber mus man schweigen. | 'My proposition serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them - as steps - to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) | He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the world aright. | What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. | FEBRUARY 1965'
Studio mark: Editions Alecto
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: "Eduardo Paolozzi 1965"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Under Copyright
- Accession Number:
- B1995.3.13
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4809
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