Lecture Recording | Soft Sculpture

Lecture Recording | Soft Sculpture

Use this page to purchase a link to the recorded version of the Art History Lecture Series with Rebecca Albiani that took place at the Frye Art Museum on Thursday, April 11, 2024.

Lecture Recording | Soft Sculpture

Traditionally we think of statues being crafted from hard materials: stone, wood, bronze. But in the 20th century, artists began to challenge and expand earlier definitions of sculpture, with results such as Meret Oppenheim’s fur teacup, Claes Oldenburg’s enormous stuffed hamburgers, and Jessica Jackson Hutchins’s sofas.

Lecture Recording | Soft Sculpture

Claes Oldenburg. Floor Cake, 1962. Synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, 58 3/8 inx 9 ft. 6 ¼ in x 58 3/8 in.  Gift of Philip Johnson. Museum of Modern Art.

Claes Oldenburg. Floor Cake, 1962. Synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, 58 3/8 x 114 1/4 x 58 3/8 in. Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Philip Johnson.

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