Claes Oldenburg: Early Work, Zwirner & Wirth, 2005, NF, HC

Robinson, Julia. New York. Zwirner & Wirth. 2005.

English, First Edition, NF, HC, Quarto, 11 ¼” X 11 ¼”, 118 pp.

ISBN:0977356809

Hardcover in navy cloth, Near fine. Minimal shelf wear, one bent tip. 118 pp. replete with full-color reproductions of Oldenburg’s pop art sculptures and installations. This catalogue features a significant collection of 1960s sculpture, much of which comes from Claes Oldenburg's personal collection, which largely had never been publicly showcased until it was brought together for the artist's first major historical exhibition in New York since his Guggenheim retrospective in 1995. Included are a large selection of objects from The Store; early soft sculptures from The Home; and works related to the Airflow project. Scholars and new initiates alike will enjoy Oldenburg's earliest riffs on street life, household objects, and automobile culture, explored and transformed through innovative manipulations of scale and material into mysterious, formally inventive works that address human experience in modern life.