Claes Oldenburg: Writing on the Side 1956-1969 - Softcover

Oldenburg, Claes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870708708 ISBN 13: 9780870708701

Verlag: Museum of Modern Art, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Scripts, diaries, texts and notes from the famed Pop artist

Considered a central figure of Pop, installation art, and Happenings, Claes Oldenburg redefined existing notions of art in the 1960s with his landmark environments "The Street" and "The Store," his soft sculptures and his proposals for monuments. Since his arrival in New York in 1956, Oldenburg's prolific production has always been accompanied by a daily practice of writing that reveals the conceptual complexity and diversity of his inventive oeuvre.

Comprising the artist's key writings from the late 1950s and 1960s, this volume makes available a wealth of previously unpublished material, including sections of the diary Oldenburg kept during these formative years, his notes (written on an old typewriter in his studio while standing), facsimiles of sketches that show his abiding interest in the relationship between image and language, plus statements, essays, scripts for Happenings and poems. In diverse styles, vivid descriptions of his environment alternate with intimate confessions, humorous anecdotes, psychological observations and self-analysis, characterizations of the art world and its protagonists, and recurring inquests into his own motivations.

This compilation, the first to be dedicated entirely to Oldenburg's writings, shows an artist who is not only resolute, informed, and programmatic--deeply concerned with the art and society of his time--but also witty and playful in his confrontation with his own contradictions and ambiguities. The book provides a unique window into the formation and evolution of one of the most influential and ground- breaking contemporary artists, and a lively personal account of the 1960s.

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1929, Claes Oldenburg grew up in Chicago and graduated from Yale University in 1950. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, he settled permanently in New York City in 1956. Oldenburg established himself in the early 1960s with a series of installations and performances, among them "The Street" (1960), "The Store" (1961) and "The Ray Gun Theater" (1962). At the end of the decade, Oldenburg began to fabricate works on a large scale, beginning with "Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks" (1969), which was followed by other works such as "Geometric Mouse" (1969) and "Giant Ice Bag" (1970). His first architecturally scaled sculpture, the 45-foot-high "Clothespin," was installed in downtown Philadelphia in 1976. Soon thereafter, he began working with Coosje van Bruggen, whom he married in 1977. Together they went on to realize 44 site-specific sculptures for cities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Korea.

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In the early 1960s, Claes Oldenburg redefined the concept of sculpture. Published in conjunction with a comprehensive exhibition of the artists early work, Claes Oldenburg: Selected Writings 19561969 gathers together in a single volume the artists key writings from the 1960s and several years from either side of the decade. Much of the publication comprises of previously unpublished material, including sections of an extensive diary the artist kept during the formative years of the 1960s, and selection from an autobiographical manuscript that Oldenburg wrote in 1971. The book also reprints seminal texts related to Oldenburgs early exhibitions, a selection of scripts for the accompanying Happenings and related interviews. Claes Oldenburg: Selected Writings 19561969 provides insight into the artists working process through a transformative period of his long career.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Museum of Modern Art
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0870708708
• ISBN 13: 9780870708701
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 367
• Herausgeber: Hochdorfer Achim, Oldenburg Maartje, Schroder Barbara
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK; https://www.moma.org/; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; 40057; Italien