Notes (Kassel), from the portfolio "Notes" / Claes Oldenburg
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.24.1
- Title
- Notes (Kassel), from the portfolio "Notes"
- Artist
- Claes Oldenburg
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born Sweden, 1929
- Medium and Support
- twelve color lithograph with embossing on Rives BFK paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1968
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson
- Style/Group/Movement
- 20th century American
- Dimensions
- 57.5 cm x 40 cm (22 5/8 in. x 15 3/4 in.)
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- lithograph
- Physical Description
- This is a large print with five depictions arranged around it against a white background. In the upper left is a maroon rectangle with white triangles and lettering. In the upper right is a small vertical rectangle with black lettering. In the lower left is a line drawing with green coloring and black lettering. A small photograph of a woman's torso and a small line drawing of a disk with black lettering are in the lower right area.
- Subject Matter
- Text on reverse of print:
- Through a misunderstanding, I believed that I would be given an enormous area to use in the 1968 Dokumenta exhibition in Kassel. I thought of building a golf course and then, imagining the surfaces of sand traps detached, I thought of scattering huge potato chips over the area like fallen leaves (or ears). In a practical mood, I reduced this to one huge chip which metamorphosed when a live model revealed her navel on the steps of the County Museum. The navel was to be filled with colored water, in recollection of Bernini), though several mothers pointed out that children might slip in and never be seen again. The dog-bowl in the form of a navel was to be sold as a souvenir. The obsession was erased finally by the projection of a colossal monument derived from the tools of geometry though the navel persists in the hole of the angle. This beautiful structure was impossible to realize and at this time of writing I face the Kassel show exhausted and with my allowed space shrunk to 30 by 30 feet.
- Secondary Keywords
- antwerpen (province)
- associated concepts
- belgium (nation)
- buildings and the land
- europe (continent)
- flanders (region)
- geographic and political locations
- geometric concepts
- geometric figures
- mathematical concepts
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
- people and culture
- plane figures
- polygons
- scientific concepts
- sports and recreation spaces
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1978 x 2872
- File Size
- 775 KB
- Record
- 2010/2.24.1
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2010-sl-2.24.1/2010_2_24.jpg
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"Notes (Kassel), from the portfolio "Notes"; Claes Oldenburg." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2010-sl-2.24.1/2010_2_24.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
