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

Director

Gerald Fox

Producer

Gerald Fox

Cast

Melvyn Bragg

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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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