Eccentric objects : rethinking sculpture in 1960s America

Eccentric objects : rethinking sculpture in 1960s America / Jo Applin.

"In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, H.C. Westermann, and Bruce Nauman offered alternative ways of imagining the three-dimensional object. The objects they c...

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Main Author: Applin, Jo (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Sculpture, American > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Sculpture, American > Themes, motives.
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Table of Contents:
  • Local histories
  • "Threatening, and possibly functioning objects": Lee Bontecou
  • Gross anthropomorphism: Claes Oldenburg
  • Encrypted objects: Lucas Samaras
  • Bric-a-brac: H.C. Westermann
  • Hauntings: Bruce Nauman
  • Looking sideways at the sixties.

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