Art: Machined Mosaics

Machined Mosaics Every art show is an archive, but none more explicitly so than the retrospective now at London's Tate Gallery. It runs from elaborate silk-screen prints dedicated to Wittgenstein to a giant chrome-plated combat boot; from a stack of bombs to a sprawling collection of clippings, toys, scraps and Mickey Mouse emblems hoarded by the artist over the past 30 years. It has all been assembled by Sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, 47, an amiable, lowering Scottish-Italian with lobster-claw hands and the build of a robot. The show, a melange of art work and subject matter, represents Paolozzi's...

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