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.
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