Claes Oldenburg

Synopsis

Contemporaries Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist reminisce about their experiences with American pop artist Claes Oldenburg. Art dealer Arne Glimcher, museum director Tom Krens and critic Hilton Kramer discuss the development of Oldenburg’s career from the early cardboard and plaster pieces to the large-scale public works done over the past 20 years with his wife the writer Coosje van Bruggen. Van Bruggen and Oldenburgretace the conceptualisation of a recent urban project, the ‘Torn Notebook’. Also follows the artists’ installation of the 9m-long ‘Giant Soft Shuttlecock in the Guggenheim Museum in New York in October 1995.

Series

South Bank Show, The: Series

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of production

1996

Notes

Broadcast on the South Bank Show ITV on 26/5/96.

Subjects

Art

Keywords

art - modern art; Oldenburg, Claes; Pop Art; sculpture

Credits

Director

Gerald Fox

Producer

Gerald Fox

Cast

Melvyn Bragg

Distribution Formats

Type

DVD

Format

Region 2 PAL

Price

£19.30

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

53 minutes

Year

2011

Type

VHS

Format

PAL

Price

£14.95 (PP)

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

53 minutes

Year

2011

Production Company

Name

London Weekend Television

Name

RM Arts

Distributor

Name

AVP

Email

info@avp.co.uk

Web

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Phone

01291 625439

Fax

01291 629671

Address

School Hill Centre
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Monmouthshire
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Notes

Use for: Audio Visual Productions. Ceased trading.

Name

Phaidon Press

Contact

Daniel Groenewald (Head of UK Sales & Marketing)

Email

enquiries@phaidon.com

Web

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Phone

020 7843 1206

Fax

020 7843 1215

Notes

A series of 60+ films on major artists, many of which have been broadcast on the Southbank Show. Sale on video. (Some of the titles are available for sale on DVD from Illuminations.

 

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