Claes Oldenburg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516934
• ISBN13: 9780262516938
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher