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Strange Eggs - Poems and Cutouts 1956?58 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R957
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Strange Eggs - Poems and Cutouts 1956?58 (Hardcover): Claes Oldenburg

Strange Eggs - Poems and Cutouts 1956?58 (Hardcover)

Claes Oldenburg

Series: Menil Collection (YUP)

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In 1957-58, after he moved to New York's Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) began making collages he has described as "mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode." Made from found, printed imagery, the "Strange Egg"s are enigmatic, surrealistic, and vastly different from the Pop art of the 1960s for which he soon became famous.

These collages are characterized by self-contained forms, or "eggs," the artist made by melding cut fragments of photographic illustrations. While many of the pieces are unrecognizable, some original references are discernible: a piece of pie, the hind leg of a horse, the creased skin of a clenched fist, and the texture of concrete. These eighteen collages were first shown at the Menil Collection in 2012, and they are being published together for the first time, along with poems that the artist wrote at the same time based on found imagery from his walks around New York's Lower East Side. Anticipating second-generation New York School art-poetry collaborations by half a decade, "Strange Eggs" makes an important single-artist contribution to our understanding of the period.

General

Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Menil Collection (YUP)
Release date: February 2015
First published: October 2014
Authors: Claes Oldenburg
Dimensions: 341 x 270 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19785-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Other graphic art forms > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
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LSN: 0-300-19785-3
Barcode: 9780300197853

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