Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America

by Jo Applin

In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, H. C. Westermann, and Bruce Nauman offered alternative ways of imagining the three-dimensional object. The objects they created were variously described as erotic, soft, figurative, aggressive, bodily, or, in the words of the critic Lucy Lippard, "eccentric." Looking beyond the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181981
• ISBN13: 9780300181982
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 10.2"