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The Block Head
Nancy Reddin KienholzWW-1981-M113858
1981·Multiple of pumice construction block, Fresnel lens system, wood, leather, and transistor radio·12 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 12 1/4" (31.8 × 21.6 × 31.1 cm)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1981
- Medium
- Multiple of pumice construction block, Fresnel lens system, wood, leather, and transistor radio
- Dimensions
- 12 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 12 1/4" (31.8 × 21.6 × 31.1 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Artist
Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Mixed Media
Nancy Reddin Kienholz was an American artist and longtime collaborator with Edward Kienholz, working across installation, assemblage, and mixed media from the 1970s onward. Her practice engaged with postwar consumer culture, memory, and social critique through large-scale environmental works that combined found objects, sculptural forms, and often provocative imagery. After Edward Kienholz's death in 1994, she continued developing the collaborative practice under the name Reddin Kienholz, maintaining the duo's commitment to immersive, narrative-driven installations that interrogated American identity and domestic life.
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- Nancy Reddin Kienholz
- Year
- 1981
- Medium
- Multiple of pumice construction block, Fresnel lens system, wood, leather, and transistor radio
- Dimensions
- 12 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 12 1/4" (31.8 × 21.6 × 31.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1981-M113858
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
- verified