Accession Code: wu0180 Title: Up and Down Date completed: 1972 Medium: Prints Material: Lithograph Height (mm): 1010 Width (mm): 1297 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed, dated and numbered 17/17.Blind stamped: © Location Name: Westwood Location Description: New Education Building Location Floor:

Up and Down reveals perhaps Dieter Roth's experience with silk-screen printing where each colour is introduced separately on a different 'screen'. Cars, trucks and buses are placed close together, seen from different viewpoints and arranged on the same picture plane creating a schematic effect. Often the work of Dieter Roth is a comment on socio-political events and it is possible that this work refers to the oil crisis of the 1970s. The work reflects developing concerns about the effect of cars on the environment at a time when car ownership was still a common aspiration.