“Notes in Hand is a selection of fifty pages from the private notebooks of Claes Oldenburg – the first coverage in depth of these important documents of contemporary art.
They show Oldenburg’s mind at work on any topics and materials which come his way, spontaneously and playfully mixing his personal obsessions with the stuff of daily life. These notepages are the artist’s version of a sketchbook and in them one finds the original impulses to his larger work.”
A series of sketches, handwritten notes, concrete-poem-like texts and collaged works reproduced in colour, with a preface by the artist and an index of the 50 notes along with the artist’s comments; a beautiful little book.
Soft cover, 14,5 x 10,5 cm, 134 not numbered pages, (London) 1971
