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Karl Haendel — Books with Holes #2 (Fiction and the Vagina)
Karl Haendel

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

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Karl Haendel, 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
Dimensions
overall: 101.6 x 66 cm
Year
2013
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
TWO x TWO

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