
Books with Holes #2 (Fiction and the Vagina)
2013
Haendel deftly selects images and objects for his meticulous graphite drawings. Here, two library books lean within the paper’s edges, with an actual hole balanced atop one book. Psycho-sexual associations are both overt (the books’ titles, one of which references the Gustav Courbet 1866 painting of a close-up vagina, Origin of the World) and covert (the phallic spine of the book leaning towards the hole in the paper).
- Medium
- Enamel and pencil on cut paper
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · TWO x TWO
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