KIENHOLZ, Edward

An American original, Kienholz made tableaux, usually with decrepit detritus, of people living at the margins of society—in a homely bar, in a state hospital, etc. He typically placed life-sized maimed figures in such real settings as a double bunk bed in State Hospital (1966), a chopped-apart 1930s automobile in Back Seat Dodge ‘38 (1964), and a bar counter in the mammoth Beanery (1965), where almost all the figures have clocks for heads. Because he incorporated various sub-art materials into...