THE ELEVENTH HOUR FINAL  - 1968

Furniture, picture, concrete tombstone, TV set with engraved screen and remote control.

The name "eleven o'clock final" is used in America for the last sequence of TV news broadcast at 11:00 P.M. each evening. Kienholz built a concrete TV tombstone which he called "The Eleven Hour Final" as a vague, uneasy prediction of the hour before doom. The work stands in sharp criticism of mankind pechant towards violence and war comes from our inability to imagine ten or ten thousand casualties as reported constantly in the media.
" What can one man's death, so remote and far away mean to most people in the familiar safety of their middle class homes? ".