Introduced by David Jones
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An American Nightmare
...I would first of all never insult my country, America, as I love it... I would, however, in my way, presume to change it.
Ed Kienholz is the tragic biographer of modern America. An artist who never studied art: he supported himself as a car salesman, an attendant in a mental hospital, a dance-band manager and a window-display designer. At the same time he started to make his macabre collages, starting with bits of junk and then incorporating life-size human models to present frozen tableaux of contemporary life.
Believing is Seeing
'Behind Appearance' is the title of a recent book which traces the strange links between the imagery of painting and science in this century and the far-reaching effects our knowledge has on our perception.
Art critic John Berger introduces the subject and talks to the author Prof C.H. Waddington.
(David Jones is a member of the RSC)
(Colour)