Book Description
Drawings are conventionally thought of as handmade objects, on a flat surface, that can be hung on a wall. The works that Edward Kienholz termed drawings are, like his freestanding sculptures, assemblages of things found ready-made. They appeared as early as 1961, the year in which Kienholz produced the first of the room-sized sculptural tableaux that became synonymous with his name. The evolution of the drawings runs precisely parallel with that of the tableaux, stretching across the whole of his career, first as a sculptor working alone, and from 1972 in collaboration with his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Until now the drawings have been shown and reproduced only in relation to the large sculptures. This handsome book examines this central and major body of work and explores the concept of "drawings" as a studio process for the Kienholzes
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Kienholz Tableau Drawings includes original text and an historical chronology by Nancy Reddin Kienholz, and an essay by Marco Livingstone, a London-based art historian, curator, and writer.
Kienholz Tableau Drawings FROM THE CRITICS
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Published in conjunction with a March 2001 exhibition held at the L.A. Louver Museum in Los Angeles, this catalog features "drawings"in a redesigned senseby Ed Kienholz and Nancy Kienholz. Created in preparation for the full-size sculptural tableaux for which the artists are famous, these tableaux drawings are composed of carefully juxtaposed objects and materials, selected and assembled to delineate the content of the larger works. As "drawings," they offer insight into the artists' creative processes and how they achieved integrity and impact in their work, which has been frequently imitated, seldom matched. Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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