ABSTRACT
The sculpture of William King is a sculpture of comic gesture. It is sculpture that choreographs a scenario of sociability, of conscious affections and unavowed pretensions, transforming the world of observed manners and unacknowledged motives into mimelike structures of comic revelation. Modern art, particularly in its later phases of development, has tended to favor a certain solemnity. In King's case, he has naturally looked to a world of forms that would best accommodate his basic instinct and empathy for the comic gesture, and in doing so has found hints and inspiration, precedents and useful procedures in a variety of sources. In King's case, he has naturally looked to a world of forms that would best accommodate his basic instinct and empathy for the comic gesture, and in doing so has found hints and inspiration, precedents and useful procedures in a variety of sources.
