Claes Oldenburg /
Publication details: New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., ©1976.Edition: 1st paperbound ed., 1976Description: 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 33 cmISBN:- 0870705091
- 9780870705090
- N6537.O4 R6 1976
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | N 6537 OLD ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0000293 |
"This book was undertaken at the invitation of the Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with its major retrospective exhibition of the work of Claes Oldenburg (September 25-November 23, 1969)."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-214) and index.
Introduction -- Part 1 : Life and Art -- Portrait of the Artist -- In the American Grain -- The Street : A Metamorphic Mural -- Land of Our Pilgrims' Pride -- Hero of a Thousand Faces -- The Ray Gun Manufacturing Company -- Color Plates : The Store -- The Soft Machines -- The Public Image -- Color Plates : Drawings for Monuments and Landscapes -- Part II : The Metamorphoses of Form -- From the Wall to the Floor -- Reality through the Haze -- The Baroque Style of Mr. Anonymous -- The World Is Not a Drawing -- Totems and Taboos -- Paradise Regained : The Past Recaptured -- Ray Gun Unmasked -- Appendix : The Theater of Action -- Selections from Oldenburg's Writings -- Chronology.