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Summary of Claes Oldenburg

With his saggy hamburgers, colossal clothespins and giant three-way plugs, Claes Oldenburg has been the reigning king of Pop sculpture since the early 1960s, back when New York was still truly gritty. In 1961 he rented a storefront, called it The Store, and stocked it with stuffed, crudely-painted forms resembling diner food, cheap clothing, and other mass-manufactured items that stupefied an audience accustomed to the austere, non-representational forms in Abstract Expressionist sculpture. These so-called "soft-sculptures" are now hailed as the first sculptural expressions in Pop art. While his work has continued to grow in scale and ambition, his focus has remained steadfast: everyday items are presented on a magnified scale that reverses the traditional relationship between viewer and object. Oldenburg shrinks the spectator into a bite-sized morsel that might be devoured along with a giant piece of cake, or crushed by an enormous ice pack. His work shows us just how small we are, and serves as a vehicle for his smart, witty, critical, and often wic

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Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Claes Thure Oldenburg was born in Stockholm on January 28, 1929. His father Gosta was a Swedish diplomat in the United States, stationed first in New York and then in Chicago, where the family joined him in 1936. It was there that Oldenburg attended the Latin School of Chicago, and developed an interest in the arts.

From 1946 to 1950 Oldenburg studied literature and art history at Yale University. Upon his return to Chicago he enrolled in courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau. He soon opened a studio, enjoying his first art sales at the 57th Street Art Fair. In 1953 became a naturalized citizen of the U.S.

Oldenburg moved to New York in 1956, where he would continue his studies at, as well as take a position at the library of, the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Oldenburg was drawn to the works of contemporaries Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Allan Kaprow, artists who were not attempting to fit into the Abstract Expressionist genre that dominated the art world at the t

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Ray Oldenburg

American sociologist (1932–2022)

Ray Oldenburg (April 7, 1932 – November 21, 2022) was an American urban sociologist who is known for writing about the importance of informal public gathering places for a functioning civil society, democracy, and civic engagement. He coined the term "third place" and is the author of The Great Good Place (which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice for 1989) and the 2001 Celebrating The Third Place.

Personal life

Oldenburg was born in Henderson, Minnesota, on April 7, 1932.^[1]^[2] He was raised by Grace and Raymond Oldenburg and lived a straight-forward life throughout high school and undergraduate school before serving in the army for two years in the South of France.^[3] While continuing his academic career, he eventually married Judith Oldenburg at the age of 35, having three children and eight grandchildren.^[3]

On November 21, 2022, Oldenburg died at the age of 90.^[2]

Academic career

Oldenburg was professor emeritus at the Department of Soc