Claes Oldenburg''s Theater of Vision - Poetry, Sculpture, Film, and Performance Art

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Nadja Rottner is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Product details

• Authors: Nadja (University of Michigan-Dearborn Rottner, Rottner Nadja
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032450926
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245092-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; History, Media Studies, Poetry, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Humanities, Literature: history & criticism, Performance Art, Literature: history and criticism, Art styles not defined by date, The arts: general topics, ART / History / 20th & 21st Century