Claes Oldenburg, Author, Coosje Van Bruggen, Author, Castello Di Rivoli, Author . Skira $85 (367p) ISBN 978-88-7624-870-2
Claes Oldenburg first achieved fame in the 1960s with the expansive whimsy of his enormous cheeseburgers, lipstick canisters and other pop art sculptures. All the more disappointing, then, that this retrospective work with his wife and collaborator,
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Coosje Van Bruggen, Author, Coosje Van Bruggen, Author Rizzoli International Publications $50 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0883-0
In South America Circle , one of Nauman's minimalist sculptures depicted here, a chair dangles from the ceiling of a bare room, perched within an enormous, suspended metallic hoop. An Indiana-born artist who soaked up Dada and conceptualism in...
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Bruggen Van, Author, Claes Oldenburg, Author, Coosje Van Bruggen, Author Rizzoli International Publications $35 (234p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0946-2
For decades, pop artist Oldenburg has been transforming the ordinary into the fantastic with his imaginative sculptures of everyday objects. The 12-meter Giant Trowel in 1976 marked the start of a collaboration with his wife van Bruggen on their ``la
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Bruggen Van, Author, Coosje Van Bruggen, Author, Coosje Van Bruggen, Author Rizzoli International Publications $60 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1182-3
Juxtaposing images from popular culture and mundane reality, conceptual artist Baldessari turns the vernacular of mass perception back on itself, jolting viewers out of programmed ways of seeing. An artist with a keen sense of humor and an...
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