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Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg

Rottner, Nadja

Paperback

Series: October Files, Book 13

Individual ArtistsArt & Popular CultureSculpture & Installation

ISBN10: 0262516934
ISBN13: 9780262516938
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 17 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.05 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
Contemporary criticism, interviews, scholarly reassessments, and texts by the artist focusing on Claes Oldenburg's sculptures, installations, and multimedia performances between 1960 and 1965.

Claes Oldenburg (born in 1929) is largely known today as a pop art sculptor. Oldenburg himself described his formless canvas and vinyl soft sculptures--gigantic hamburgers and ice cream cones, cushiony toilets and typewriters--as objects that elude definition. This collection of writings revisits not only Oldenburg's soft objects from the early to mid 1960s but also his pioneering installations The Street (1960) and The Store (1961-1962) and his often overlooked multimedia performances. As the artist translated his ideas and beliefs into various media and formats, his work drew on a range of styles and schools, including abstract expressionism, Happenings, pop art, minimalism, and postminimalism. Perhaps because of their refusal to be classified, these artworks are as contemporary today as they were when they were created between 1960 and 1965.

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