Name/Title
Claes Oldenburg : an anthologyEntry/Object ID
N9500.O58.A5Description
Claes Oldenburg has become one of America's most influential artists. His subject-matter is the everyday object - food, clothing and mechanical devices - which he reincarnates in provocative sculpture, drawings and performances. This comprehensive volume, published to accompany a retrospective exhibition of his works, spans Oldenburg's entire career, from his earliest work devoted to the street life of New York, to "The Store", an array of painted, plaster sculptures of food and clothing, and to his soft sculptures, drawings for fanciful monuments, and large-scale public projects made with Coosje van Bruggen. This book was produced with the assistance of Oldenburg, and contains a selection of his own writings, as well as many previously-unpublished photographs.Context
Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Feb. 12-May 7, 1995, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Oct. 7, 1995-Jan. 21, 1996, and at three other places through Aug. 1996.Collection
Carol Westfall CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
artist monographs, sculpture--exhibitions, sculpture--united states, soft sculptureLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Claes Oldenburg, Germano Celant, National Gallery of ArtPublisher
Guggenheim Museum, National Gallery of ArtPlace Published
City
New York, NY, Washington, D.C.Country
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1995Call No.
N9500.O58.A5ISBN
810968878, 9780810968875Notes
Length: 575General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Claes Oldenburg : a biographical overview / Marla Prather --
Claes Oldenburg and the feeling of things / Germano Celant --
"Unbridled moments, "; or, how Claes Oldenburg set out to change the world / Mark Rosenthal --
The sculptor versus the architect / Germano Celant --
From the entropic library / Dieter Koepplin --
Selected exhibition history, with large-scale projects and sited works.