Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022)
Art in America – Oldenburg and Mouse House
(Two pocket sized books – Claes Oldenburg Notes in Hand (spread) and a novel by Harumi Setouchi – photo by Fung Lin Hall)
Claes Oldenburg homepage (He shares with his wife Coosje van Bruggen)
Ridiculous costume for Police.New York, 1967
Ball point pen, typewriter. His note below.
“You must realize cops are just you and I in uniform. Now I propose then a uniform which is ridiculous. When they do the thing they do, they learned to do,
namely when they do restrain you and they draw the blood – they look ridiculous. As you and and I if caught drawing , draining blood.”
Artts Magazine (New York) Summer 1967. p 34.
The costume is shown on a rack, as it might be hung in the station house.
And more his giant Wikiart Claes Oldenburg sculptures from here .
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(Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Patty Mucha, and Robert Rauschenberg at George Segal’s New Jersey home, circa 1968)