Acts And Entertainments
May, 1972
Fanciful interpretations of familiar objects have always fascinated pop artist-sculptor Claes Oldenburg, creator of outsized vinyl ice-cream cones, hot dogs and layer cakes, a melting pay telephone, shriveled plastic commodes and enormous fabric shirts and ties. "I am concerned with the looks of common objects," he once explained, commenting on the body of work that brought him international stature as both the most imaginative and the most venerable representative of the pop movement,...
