Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud 1969 - 1972, Revisited September 16, 2011

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Ed Kienholz's Five Card Stud, created for Documenta 5 in 1972, has never been seen publicly in the United States. This life-size tableaux depicts a black man caught drinking at night in his pick-up truck with a white woman; his vehicle has been surrounded and trapped by the parked cars of his six white captors. Kienholz thought of Five Car Stud as 'symbolic of minority strivings in the world today.' Though an invented scene, this work retains its potency forty years after its creation.

Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud 1969 - 1972, Revisited is part of the groundbreaking cultural program, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. from 1945 to 1980. Starting in October 2011, more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California will come together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene and how it became a major force in the art world.

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