Accession Code: wu0640 Title: Second Portrait Date completed: 1988 Medium: Sculpture Material: Lead over wood Height (mm): 1150 Width (mm): 810 Depth (mm): 230 Inscription: Signed and dated. Inscribed with title on reverse Location Name:Physics Location Description: Stairwell Location Floor: Floor 3/4

Presented by Contemporary Art Society, 1992

In the 1970s Keith Milow's work took on the characteristics of minimalism - a movement which emerged as a reaction to Pop Art with its rich and colourful allusions to everyday life and popular culture. Minimalists believed that a work should be more purely conceptual and devoid of traditional aesthetic references; many of them produced work based on serial progressions and the repetition of stark geometric shapes. The use of non-traditional, industrial materials was also common.

'Second Portrait' is made of sheet lead attached to a wooden core. It has some affinities with other 1960s reliefs such as Geoffrey Clarke's 'Slab and Bar Relief' which is in the University collection (displayed near the main entrance to the Arts Centre).