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Subject: Re: Help identifying a robot
Date: 16 Jan 2007 20:47:37 -0800
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The archive (known as the Krazy Kat Arkive after the cartoon character)
is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum's Archive of Art and Design
in London: http://www.vam.ac.uk/resources/archives/aad/index.html
However there is basically no information on the website itself.  I
have a copy of the catalogue, which is text only, that I could email
you if you're interested.  The archive basically contains part of
Eduardo's library (with a vast comic collection), several thousand
magazine cuttings he collected as potential source material, several
dozen scrapbooks with more cuttings (in one of which I found the robot
picture posted) and a vast collection of vintage and recent toys
(including numerous toy robots from memory).  If you're interested in
comics you could check out the following exhibition catalogue:

Carlo and Leon Leigh, "Marvels from the Krazy Kat Arkive : an
exhibition of silver age Marvel comics", London: National Art Library,
[1997]. 42p. ill.

cheers,



dan michaels wrote:
> johnston...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > Thanks a lot for all the information (to which I'm only now replying as
> > I've been away for a few days) - you've saved me hours of thumbing
> > through old newspapers and magazines looking for clues.  I'm on my way
> > down to the library now to get the robots book.  Incidentally, I am yet
> > to identify what the page I posted on the web actually is - I found it
> > as a loose sheet in
> >
>
> BTW, do you have a link for  ..... Paolozzi's archive.
>
>
> >
> >    I am guessing it is from a
> > late 40s edition of Popular Mechanics or something similar, or perhaps
> > even a sci-fi mag like Astounding, however verifying this has proven
> > very difficult.
> > Thanks again,
> > Ryan