Claes Oldenburg: Drawings and Prints
New York: Wellfleet Press, 1988. 12.5 x 9.75 inches. 274 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. A fine copy a very good plus jacket, small tear on back, some toning and light shelfwear. Item #408070
ISBN: 1555213006
"Not only has Oldenburg upset conventional expectations (including those of “advanced” taste) about the way objects and the environment are to be treated in a work of art, but he effectively alters the tone in which the artist speaks to the public. He plays the clown. At the Museum of Modern Art’s large retrospective exhibition of Oldenburg’s work this fall, the faces in the crowds of spectators were happy faces—smiling, relaxed, often actually laughing. At the very altar of high artistic seriousness, Oldenburg invited the crowd to abandon its pieties and have a good time, and the crowd responded with enthusiasm."
Price: $25.00