Research Catalog

Title

Claes Oldenburg : writing on the side, 1956-1969 / edited by Achim Hochdörfer, Maartje Oldenburg, and Barbara Schröder.

Author

Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-2022

Publication

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hochdörfer, Achim
• Oldenburg, Maartje
• Schröder, Barbara, 1969-
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

367 pages : illustrations (black and white); 28 cm.

Summary

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Comprising the artist's key writings from the late 1950s and 1960s, this volume makes available a wealth of previously unpublished material, including sections of the diary Oldenburg kept during these formative years, his notes (written on an old typewriter in his studio while standing),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.

Alternative Title

• Writing on the side, 1956-1969
• The Street and the Store.
• Mouse museum/ray gun wing.

Subject

• Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-2022 > Diaries
• Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-2022 > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition of "Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store" and "Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing," on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 14-August 5, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 364).

Contents

Fear of New York, 1956-1958 -- Guises of Ray Gun: the street, 1959-1960 -- Guises of Ray Gun: the store, 1961-1962 -- On the road, 1963-1964 -- Object consciousness, 1965-1967 -- Self-portraits, 1968-1969.

Call Number

JQF 13-876

ISBN

• 9780870708701 (paperback)
• 0870708708 (paperback)

LCCN

2013935423

OCLC

854958035

Author

Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-2022, artist.

Title

Claes Oldenburg : writing on the side, 1956-1969 / edited by Achim Hochdörfer, Maartje Oldenburg, and Barbara Schröder.

Imprint

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2013.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 364).

Added Author

Hochdörfer, Achim, editor.

Oldenburg, Maartje, editor.

Schröder, Barbara, 1969- editor.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

The Street and the Store.

Mouse museum/ray gun wing.

Research Call Number

JQF 13-876