Claes Oldenburg Multiples in Retrospect 1964-1990

Oldenburg, Claes

ISBN 10: 0847813355 ISBN 13: 9780847813353

Published by Rizzoli, New York, 1991

Language: English

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Illustrated survey of Oldenburg's multiples, from the California Ray Guns of 1963-64, and up to The Soap at Baton Rouge of 1990; foreword by Arthur Solway, essay by Thomas Lawson, and also including Oldenburg's own production notes for the Multiples, and a Cataloge Raisonne by David Platzker; full-page colour plates, and b&w photos and drawings throughout; occasional mild foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; mild spotting to boards; dustwrapper with 2x3cm loss top edge near spine, o.w. Very Good. Dustwrapper. 157pp. 4to. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper (loss top edge near spine) Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper (loss top edge near spine).

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Claes Oldenburg Multiples in Retrospect 1964-1990

Publisher

Rizzoli, New York

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0847813355

ISBN 13

9780847813353

Binding

hardbound

Illustrator

profusely illustrated

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Weight

2 kilograms

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The artist's Pop multiples--small sculptures produced in large editions--are alternately playful, subtle and outrageous. Such works as the latex Soft Ketchup Bottle or the giant Emerald Pill (an aspirin-popper's dream) can be read as critiques of consumerism, but they also celebrate the everyday rituals that give coherence to people's lives. As Lawson, dean of the California Institute of the Arts, points out in his solemn introduction, the multiples depend on ``the pleasure of recognition.'' Geometric Mouse renders Mickey Mouse's head in the style of Alexander Calder. In London Knees , an homage to Britain's miniskirt fad of the 1960s, a pair of disembodied legs towers like a fetishistic icon. Life Mask , a human face cast as a Jell-O mold, reveals Oldenburg's delight in exploring his materials. The sculptor's chatty notes accompanying each plate make the book as entertaining to read as it is to look at.

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