Five Car Stud.
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Title |
Five Car Stud. |
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Creator |
Kienholz, Edward (American sculptor, 1927-1994) |
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Date |
1969-1972 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Funk |
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Subject |
Tableaux
Night
Violence
Terrorism
Punishment & torture
Race discrimination
Discrimination
Race relations
Racism
Social aspects
Interpersonal relations
Social justice
Social values
Minorities
Ethnic groups
Men
Women
Mannequins
Masks
Vomiting
Automobiles
Trucks |
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Description |
Tableau: cars, plaster casts, guns, rope, masks, chainsaw, clothing, oil pan with water and plastic letters, paint, polyester resin, styrofoam rocks, and dirt; "Ruthlessly forgoing aesthetic or metaphorical niceties, Keinholz's grotesquely theatrical scenario compels the viewer to witness what he termed a 'social castration'. (Caption, p.123); "If [James] Rosenquist's politics were compromised by his Pop gloss, a more abrasive form of social commentary was conducted throughout the 1960s by the Los Angeles-based assemblage artist Ed Keinholz. Keinholz had helped consolidate West Coast Pop's distinctive 'funk' idiom with the establishment, in 1957, of Los Angeles's important Ferus Gallery, in collaboration with the curator Walter Hopps. By the turn of the 1970s his response to nearly two decades of racial tension, epitomized by riots in Los Angeles's Watts district in 1965 and in hundreds of other cities in 1967 and 1968, was a stark tableau first shown at Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany, in 1972. It consisted of life-sized mannequins and related props. Its imagery was nightmarish. Lit by the headlights of their parked cars, six white men, their faces hidden by rubber Halloween masks, systematically emasculated their black victim, while his white 'date' cowered, vomiting, in the truck from which he had been dragged." (Excerpt, pp.121, 123) |
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Material |
Mixed media
Plaster
Rope
Cloth
Textiles
Textile materials
Water
Plastic (organic material)
Paint
Firearms
Automobiles
Masks (costume)
Clothing
Chain saws
Pans (containers)
Polyester
Styrofoam (TM)
Earth
Soil
Casts (sculpture) |
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Measurements |
Dimensions variable |
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Technique |
Sculpting
Casting (process) |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Tableaux (sculpture) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.123, fig.61) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Photo Robert C. Bucknam. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-27.jpg |
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Rating |
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