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...MODERN ART-11 West 53rd. The sculpture garden sports new acquisitions by Ferber, Calder and Ipousteguy. The lures inside are Pierre Bonnard's luminescent paintings (through Nov. 29), prints made by painters and sculptors (through Oct. 25), collages, silk-screen prints and sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 works by German Sculptor Günter Haese (through...
...Totem. Sir Herbert Read, the British art historian, contends that Paolozzi's "new images, functionless machine-tools or sterile computers, derive not, like his previous work, from the debris of industrialism, but from the rational order of technology." They go beyond dada, surrealism or assemblage in accepting and celebrating the machine, yet dominating it by giving it a soul...
Many recent sculptors-Chamberlain, Stankiewicz, César, for example-have plundered the scrap heap for its rusty riches. Their assemblages look back on Marcel Duchamps' "ready-mades," or store-bought hardware, and Picasso's "found objects." Paolozzi also once combined bits of cameras, clocks, toys and bombsights into figures that looked like archaic idols or, as he said, "the fetishes of a Congo witch doctor." Now his work sets up a more modern paradox between engineering and art, and his breakaway from traditional values has made him spiritual uncle (where Henry Moore is spiritual father) to younger...
Drainpipe Laocoön. Blunt, thickset Paolozzi, 40, son of Italian peasants who wound up in Edinburgh selling ice cream, has the mien of his bulky monsters. He practices judo with a passion. "There comes a split second in judo," he says, "when absolutely everything matters. It should be the same in art." He is fascinated by Greek mythology and, indeed, has wrestled 4-in. pipe into torsos, titling it Towards a Laoco...
...Paolozzi also reads the analytic philosophy of the late Ludwig Wittgenstein, an eccentric Cambridge professor who, in brief, believed that what in logic was nonsense could be meaningful to man. The artist has made multicolored silk screens based on collages following Wittgenstein, but that is only half his homage. His cool sculpture, welded collages made of objects that do not exist, are themselves contemplative nonsense. Their aim in art, as Wittgenstein defined his in philosophy, is "to show the fly the way out of the fly bottle...