1st Edition
Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision Poetry, Sculpture, Film, and Performance Art
By Nadja Rottner
Copyright 2024
256 Pages
20 Color & 55 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
20 Color & 55 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
20 Color & 55 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965.
This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other metaphors to visualize the structure and image content of human thought as an artistic problem.... Read more
Introduction: Intermedial and Metaphorical Being 1. Rips out of Reality, or the Camera Eye in The Street 2. Annihilate–Illuminate: Photography, Polysemy, and Performance 3. The Mind as Storehouse 4. A Cinema without Film Epilogue: Art as Gesture
Biography
Nadja Rottner is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
