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Invited talk given at start of first major Kienholz exhibition in UK since 1971, with no other European showing and touring direct to Australia. The talk explains the relationship of works at Baltic from the 70s-90s, to Kienholz’s internationally celebrated sculptural tableaux of the 1960s. Formal and conceptual developments are examined alongside proposed new readings in relation to the theories of Adorno, Baudrillard, Diderot, poetry by Shelley and Ali Ahmad Said. In addition, the reading of several major works is linked to events in New York (9/11) and Guantanamo Bay and photographic images from Abu Graib.
Author(s): Brown S
Publication type: Digital or Visual Media
Publication status: Published
Year: 2005
Source Publication Date: 19 May 2005
Extent of Work: 52 min 30 sec
Publisher: BALTIC archive
Place Published: Baltic Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Type: DV standard tape; MP3
URL: http://archive.balticmill.com/index.php?itemid=33818
Notes: The talk was invited on the basis of my essay, one of the few scholarly accounts of Kienholz (a detailed analysis of his tableau ‘The Wait’) in a British publication (‘The Wait: Barthes, Kienholz, Photography and Death’, eds. Stephanie Brown & Stephen Hobson, Available Light/Arts Council, 1995, ISBN 1 899457 01 1). Material from this talk is currently being developed as an article examining the significance of the grotesque and anti-aesthetic in relation to specific moral and social critiques in 19th and 20th century art. Review: Gary Malkin, Records Management Journal, 2006, vol.16., issue 3, pp. 149-158.
