Anecdotes About Kienholz

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In Life and Death Kienholz makes us participate:

Nancy's first work done without her collaborator/husband is permanently installed in Hope -- Ed Kienholz's mournful performance/tableau burial.
"His corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe," said Hughes. "There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him, and the ashes of his dog Smash in the trunk. He was set for the Afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole: the most Egyptian funeral ever held in the American West, a fitting [exit] for this profuse, energetic, sometimes brilliant, and sometimes hopelessly vulgar artist."
Source: http://www.beatmuseum.org/kienholz/edkienholz.html

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