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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-, Rottner, Nadja
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2012.
Series:October files ; 13.
Subjects:
Oldenburg, Claes, > 1929- > Criticism and interpretation.
Oldenburg, Claes, > 1929-
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Claes Oldenburg's The street and Greenwich Village, 1960 (2004) / Joshua Shannon
  • Ray guns (1997) / Yve-Alain Bois
  • Fetish or foil: the caprices of Claes Oldenburg (2005) / Julie E. Robinson
  • Oldenburg's poetics: analogues, metamorphoses, and sources (1970) / Ellen H. Johnson
  • Selected writings on The store and the Ray Gun Theater (1961-1969) / Claes Oldenburg
  • In conversation with Claes Oldenburg (1985) / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
  • Oldenburg's Store (1997) / Cécile Whiting
  • The transformation of Daddy Warbucks: an interview with Claes Oldenburg (1964) / Robert Pincus-Witten
  • The theater of action (1970) / Barbara Rose
  • Reviews and writings (1964-1966) / Donald Judd
  • Claes Oldenburg's soft machines (1967) / Barbara Rose
  • Object lessons (2011) / Nadja Rottner.