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Claes Oldenburg : an anthology

Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Feb. 12-May 7, 1995; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 18-Sept. 3, 1995; Solomon R. Guggenheim Oct. 7, 1995-Jan. 21, 1996; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Feb. 15-May 12, 1996; Hayward Gallery, London, June 6-August 19, 1996 · Includes essays by Germano Celant and others · Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index · Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) first made his mark on the New York art scene in the early 1960s, and from that time he has been widely regarded as one of America's most influential and appealing artists. His subject matter is the everyday object - food, clothing, mechanical devices, and the like - which he reincarnates into witty and provocative sculptures ranging in scale from the intimate to the expansive · This volume, published to accompany a major retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is the most comprehensive to date on Oldenburg and his multifaceted art. Interweaving photographs of installations and Happenings, texts, and new reproductions of the sculpt

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