

CLAES OLDENBURG
1929, Stockholm, Sweden - Lives and workes in New York
| EPHEMERA | ||
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| Airflow (multi-fold brochure with text by Barbara Rose) | Gemini / Museum of Modern Art? | 1970? |
| Art for Peace (card announcement with image on front of proposal "Colossal Monument of Concrete Inscribed with the Names of War Heroes" by Oldenburg - multi-gallery exhibition and auction) | Referendum '70 with numerous galleries throughout the U.S. | 1970 |
| RECORDINGS | ||
| June Was / Panodramadra | Big Ego, Giorno Poetry Series | 1978 |
| BOOKS BY OR ABOUT OLDENGURG | ||
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| Raw Notes: Documents and Scripts of the Performances: Stars, Moveyhouse, Massage, The Typewriter | The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design | 1973 |
| Store Days | Something Else Press | 1967 |
| ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS BY OR WITH OLDENBURG | ||
| I Am For Art | in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | 1996 |
| The Artist Speaks: Claes Oldenburg | Art in America, March-April | 1969 |
| INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES | ||
| Claes Oldenburg ("This book about the work of Claes Oldenburg was written by Barbara Rose for the Museum of Modern Art" - vinyl cover) | Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1970 |
| Claes Oldenburg: Object into Monument | Pasadena Art Museum | 1971 |
| Oldenburg: Six Themes | Walker Art Center | 1975 |
| SELECTED CATALOGUES INCLUDING OLDENBURG | ||
| A Different War: Vietnam in Art | Independent Curators Incorporated, New York | 1990 |
| A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation [not in exhibition but mentioned in catalogue essay by Anne Rorimer: Photography - Language - Context: Prellude to the 1980s] | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1989 |
| A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A. | 2004 |
| Art About Art | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1978 |
| Art by Telephone | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 1969 |
| Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1984 |
| Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America, 1950-1990 | Wexner Center for the Arts | 1991 |
| Committed to Print: Social and Political Themes in Recent American Printed Art | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1988 |
| Contemporary Sculpture. Projects in Munster 1997 | Munster, Germany | 1997 |
| Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing, and Archiving in Art | P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center | 1998 |
| Diagrams & Drawings | Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo | 1972 |
| Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament | The Art Museum Association of America | 1984 |
| Documenta 5 | Kassel, Germany | 1972 |
| Documenta 6 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] | Kassel, Germany | 1977 |
| Documenta 7 | Kassel, Germany | 1982 |
| Earth Works (no catalogue, anouncement card written in sand) | Virginia Dawn Gallery | 1968 |
| In the Spirit of Fluxus | Walker Art Center | 1993 |
| La Biennale di Venezia 1976 - From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature - Ambient Art | Venice | 1976 |
| la Biennale di Venezia 44: Ubi Fluxus | Venice | 1990 |
| La Biennale di Venezia 47 | Venice, Italy | 1997 |
| Magiciens de la Terre | Musee National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou | 1989 |
| 1967: At the Crossroads | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia | 1987 |
| Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963 [mentioned in text - not in exhibition] | The Newark Museum | 1999 |
| One Month: March 1969 | Seth Siegelaub | 1969 |
| Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979 | L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art | 1998 |
| Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object | Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art | 1994 |
| San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art: A Selections from the Permanent Collection | San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art | 1990 |
| Sculpture Since the Sixties: from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art | Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitqble Center | 1989 |
| '60 - '80: Attitudes / Concepts / Images | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | 1982 |
| Sonsbeek 71 | Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem | 1971 |
| Sonsbeek 86 | Arnhem, The Netherlands | 1986 |
| The Machine as seen at the end of the mechanical age | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1968 |
| The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1999 |
| The Political Arm | John Weber Gallery / Washington University Gallery of Art | 1991 |
| Urban Encounters: Art Architecture Audience | ICA, University of Pennsylvania | 1980 |
| When Attitudes Become Form (Bern and London) | Kunsthalle Bern | 1969 |
| Whitney Museum Sculpture Annual 1970 | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1970 |
| Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990 | Milwaukee Art Museum | 1990 |
| X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein | 2004 |
| EAST VILLAGE EXHIBITIONS [INVITATIONS ONLY] | ||
| 100 Years: A Tradition of Social and Political Art on the LOWER EAST SIDE | P.P.O.W. | 1988 |
| SELECTED BOOKS INCLUDING OLDENBURG | ||
| Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 | The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press | 2002 |
| Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1984 |
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Art and Life | Praeger | 1971 |
| Art & Technology: A Report on the Art & Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art / The Viking Press | 1971 |
| Assemblage, Environments & Happenings | Abrams | 1966 |
| Changing: Essays in Art Criticism [Lucy Lippard] | E. P. Dutton & Co. | 1971 |
| Conceptual Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity | MIT Press | 2003 |
| Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties | Boettger, Suzaan | 2002 |
| Fantastic Architecture | Something Else Press | 1969 |
| From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art | MIT Press | 1999 |
| From the Center: feminist essays on women's art | Dutton | 1976 |
| Happenings | Dutton | 1965 |
| Happenings and Other Acts | Routledge | 1995 |
| Idea Art: A Critical Anthology | Dutton | 1973 |
| Minimal Art: A Critical Survey | E.P. Dutton & Co. | 1968 |
| Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties | Yale University Press | 2001 |
| New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality | Thames and Hudson | 2001 |
| Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 | School of Visual Arts | 2000 |
| Performance: Live Art Since 1960 | Harry N. Abrams | 1998 |
| Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object.... | Praeger | 1973 |
| SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony | Routledge | 2003 |
| Surface Tension: Prolematics of Site | Errant Bodies Press | 2003 |
| The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art | MIT Press | 2003 |
| Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| Thinking About Exhibitions | Routledge | 1996 |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Art Action 1958 - 1998 | Inter Art Actuel et Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel, Quebec | 2001 |
| Dokumente zur Aktuellen Kunst 1967 -1970 [materials from the archives of Harald Szeemann] | Kunstkreis AG Luzern | 1972 |
| On Site #4 - Not Seen and/or Less Seen of... | Site, Inc., New York | 1973 |
| PERIODICALS INCLUDING OLDENBURG | ||
| Artforum [The Shape of the Art Environment "How anti form is "Anti Form"? by Allan Kaprow - a response to Robert Morris' article of April, 1968] | Summer | 1968 |
| Artforum [article by Dan Graham: Oldenburg's Monuments] | Artforum, January | 1968 |
| Art in America: [The Audience is His Medium!] | # 2 (March-April) | 1963 |
| Art in America [The Politicalization of the Avant-Garde, II] | March-April | 1972 |
| Art in America [Sculpture as Experience: The Monument that Suffered] | May-June | 1974 |
| Art in America [The Avant Garde Festival: And Now, Shea Stadium] | November-December | 1974 |
| Art International [A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art by Robert Smithson] | March | 1968 |
| Art International [New York] | November | 1969 |
| Avalanche # 01 [Rumbles] | Avalanche | 1970 |
| Upfront # 8 - PADD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] | PAD | 1983 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Claes Oldenbrug at Sidney Janis | Art in America, May-June | 1967 |
| Claes Oldenburg at Richard Feigen, Chicago | Artforum, January | 1969 |
| Claes Oldenburg at Richard Feigen, Chicago | Artforum, September | 1969 |
| Claes Oldenburg at Sidney Janis | Art in America, November-December | 1970 |