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artifical limbs and extentions, performance, mastery of control of limbs, becomes more
artifical limbs and extentions, performance, mastery of control of limbs, becomes more
Artist - Bill Woodrow materials found in dumps, side of the street, car lots, scrap yards, etc. used different items like cars and refrigerators cutting portions but keeping the original shape so it can still be discerned, see the twin tub below, however i find this flawed in that I cannot recognise this as a washing machine, technology has changed since it was made, in the future his work may have less and less meaning to those who look at it. does it still hold value when we can no longer relate or identify the form? Twin-Tub with Guitar 1981 rock and roll machine as its a washing machine and a guitar! Tate Bill Woodrow’s raw materials are familiar, domestic objects collected from the streets and junk yards in his neighbourhood. In the early 1980s he began giving them new meanings by peeling back their outer casing to form new objects. brings together two symbols of Western consumerism. Woodrow explained ‘The guitar was a pop icon and the washing machine was an everyd...
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