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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 writings revisits not only Oldenburgs soft objects from the early to mid 1960s but also his pioneering installations The Street (1960) and The Store (19611962) 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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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Claes Oldenburg
• Author: Nadja Rottner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780262516938
• ISBN: 0262516934
• ID: 04458443
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 428 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 154 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. February 2012

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