Printed Stuff: Claes Oldenburg
Axsom, Richard H. & Platzker, David
£30.00
Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg. A Catalogue Raisonné (1958-1996)
By Richard H. Axsom and David Platzker
Hardback with dust jacket. Published by Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1998. Approx size: 31cm H x 24cm W (12 ¼” H x 9 ½” W). Art & Design. 453pp with 381 colour plates, 52 Duotone and 55 b/w illustrations.
"Claes Oldenburg has been an innovative American artist for more than three decades, from early performance pieces and environmental installations including The Street and The Store, through recent monumental public sculptures created in collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen. His work combines unequalled skill as a manipulator of materials, traditional and innovative; unique brilliance as a draftsman; and unlimited imagination and wit devoted to inventing sculptural form.
Oldenburg's career as a sculptor has been paralleled by a major graphic oeuvre, some 250 editioned prints as well as posters, artist's books, and much printed ephemera. These works have involved a variety of printing processes, from mimeograph to lithography, etching, woodcut, and screen printing, and have been printed on ordinary and special papers, Plexiglas, cardboard, silk and canvas.
All of Oldenburg's prints, posters, and printed ephemera are fully documented in the newest in Hudson Hills Press's acclaimed series of catalogue raisonnés of the graphic work of America's greatest printmakers. All works that involve colour are reproduced in full colour, the balance in rich duotone. Many are accompanied by reproductions of related drawings."
Excellent book on Oldenburg, with lots of illustrations shown in high quality printing.
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