Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg (28 January 1929 – 18 July 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009; they had been married for 32 years. Oldenburg lived and worked in New York City.

• Injun & Other Histories, Something Else Press (Great Bear Pamphlet), 1966.
• Store Days: Documents from The Store, 1961, and Ray Gun Theater, 1962, Something Else Press, 1967, 152 pp.
• Il Corso del Coltello / The Course of the Knife: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Frank O Gehry, ed. Germano Celant, New York: Rizzoli, 1987, 239 pp. Multimedia performance created by the sculptor Claes Oldenburg, the writer/curator Coosje van Bruggen, and the architect Frank O. Gehry, and performed in Venice in 1985. (English)
• Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1995.
• Raw Notes: Documents and Scripts of the Performances: Stars, Moveyhouse, Massage, The Typewriter, Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2005. Complete texts of Oldenburg's performances. [1]
• Edward J. Olszewski, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Cleveland’s 'Free Stamp', Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017, 189 pp.
• http://includemeout2.blogspot.com/2012/12/i-am-for-art-claes-oldenburg-art.html
• http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artists/claes-oldenburg/artworks?p=10
• http://www.ubu.com/film/oldenburg.html
• http://thirdrailquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/thirdrail_spring2014_07_coldenburg_akitnick.pdf
• Online companion to 2013 exhibition at MoMA
• Eva Ehninger , "What’s Happening? Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg Argue about Art and Life", Getty Research Journal 6, 2014, pp 195-202.