Claes Oldenburg
Subtitle: writing on the side, 1956-1969
By: edited by Achim Hochdörfer, Maartje Oldenburg, and Barbara Schröder
Contributors: Hochdörfer, Achim, editor; Oldenburg, Maartje, editor; Schröder, Barbara, 1969- editor; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780870708701
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Diaries; Exhibitions; American Art
Other titles: Writing on the side, 1956-1969
Description: 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Comprising the artist's key writings from the late 1950s and 1960s, this volume makes available a wealth of previously unpublished material, including sections of the diary Oldenburg kept during these formative years, his notes (written on an old typewriter in his studio while standing),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.
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-364).
Table of contents: title: Fear of New York, 1956-1958; title: Guises of Ray Gun: the street, 1959-1960; title: Guises of Ray Gun: the store, 1961-1962; title: On the road, 1963-1964; title: Object consciousness, 1965-1967; title: Self-portraits, 1968-1969.