Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology 1st ed. 1995 Claes Oldenburg,Germano Celant National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Published by Guggenheim Museum, 1995 printed in Germany by Cantz Paperback Fully illustrated in black and white and color illustrations 9 x 12 inches 588 pages Publisher : Solomon R Guggenheim Museum; 2nd edition (January 1, 1995) Language : English Paperback : 575 pages ISBN-10 : 0892071397 ISBN-13 : 978-0892071395
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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 writingsrevisits 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 workdrew 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.
This collection serves both as a summation of early critical thinking on Oldenburg's art and a starting point for consideration of the artist as a forerunner of current art trends of stylelessness and intermediality. It includes both contemporary criticism and more recent scholarly reassessments, interviews with the artist, and Oldenburg's own unpublished manifesto on the Ray Gun Theater (the artist's name for his performance series in the back of "The Store").
