Research Catalog

Title

Bill Woodrow : fools' gold.

Author

Woodrow, Bill, 1948-

Publication

London : Tate Publishing, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roberts, John, 1955-
• Tate Gallery
• Institut Mathildenhöhe (Stadtmuseum Darmstadt)

Description

56 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Summary

"Bill Woodrow came to prominence in the early 1980s as part of the much celebrated New British Sculpture and he remains one of the outstanding artists of his generation. In his early work he used a variety of discarded consumer goods and everyday objects, such as televisions, washing machines, umbrellas and filing cabinets, to produce tableaux and 'still-lifes' on the themes of consumerism, cultural colonialism and the exploitation of nature." "In an extraordinary move in the late 1980s he broke with this approach (if not its themes), turning first to welded steel then casting in bronze, the two sculptural methods that his generation had so vehemently resisted. In this book John Roberts looks at these changes not as a return to traditional skills, but as the experience of an artist coming to terms with the academic success of his own methods. Roberts places his analysis of Woodrow's work within a broad discussion of the relationship between skill, meaning and value in twentieth-century art."--Jacket

Alternative Title

Fools' gold

Subject

Woodrow, Bill, 1948- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Published by order of the Trustees 1996 for the exhibition at the Tate Gallery 23 January 1996-28 April 1996 and at the Institut Mathildenhöhe, Damstadt 20 October 1996-5 January 1997"--T.p. verso.
• Essay by John Roberts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 55).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1854371991

OCLC

• 34891765
• SCSB-9945370

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library