Word: cogwheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris. He prowls junk yards and factory dumps for his materials, which he assembles elaborately. Paolozzi begins by pressing his bits of industrial detritus into soft clay, which he then fills with soft wax. Then he combines hundreds of small wax forms to build up his figures. A cogwheel may do for a navel, a phonograph pickup for an arm. Finally cast in bronze, they become mysterious idols of fusion and confusion. Explains Paolozzi: "My occupation can be described as the erection of hollow gods with the head like an eye, the center part like a retina . . . the legs...