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Jo Applin

Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America

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Jo Applin

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Note: Page numbers followed by "n" refer to information in a numbered note. Galleries identified with owners are entered under the owner’s surname, e.g. Castelli, Leo and gallery.

Abraham, Nicolas 82, 134

Abstract Expressionism 5, 37, 97, 101

‘abstract-erotic’ work 9, 31, 39, 55–6, 59

abstraction 5, 51, 105, 129, 139, 140

and Bontecou 13, 16, 17, 18, 23, 26, 28, 33, 34–40

and Hesse 31, 32

and Nauman 113, 114, 122–3, 124–5

and Oldenburg 44, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57

and Westermann 85, 111

see also ‘Eccentric Abstraction’

Adams, Alice 8

Allan, William (Bill) 116, 117, 15 7n 17

Fishing for Asian Carp (with Nauman) 157n.18

Alloway, Lawrence 54, 148n. 14, 151n. 13

‘American Sculpture of the Sixties’ exhibition and essays (1967) 54

Anderson, John 4

Andre, Carl 1, 8, 32, 139

anthropomorphism of soft sculpture 6, 43, 52–4, 56, 57, 60

Arensberg, Walter and Louise 119

Arman 15

‘Le Plein’ 115

Arneson, Robert 116

Westermann in work 157n.18

‘Art of Assemblage’ exhibition (1961) 16, 23, 67, 107

see also Assemblage movement

art history and linear progression 5, 135–6, 140

Artforum (journal) 7, 22–3, 85

artistic homage 115–16, 134, 135

Nauman and Moore 126–33

Nauman and Westermann 117–26, 128, 133

Arts Magazine 77, 81

Artschwager, Richard 4, 74, 148–9n. 19

Ashbery, John 26

Ashton, Dore 23, 35

Assemblage movement 5, 6, 11, 57, 101

‘Art of Assemblage’ exhibition (1961) 16, 23, 67, 107

and Bontecou’s work 15, 23

description of ‘assemblage’ 107

aural in art 124–6, 133–4

autobiography see self-portraiture and autobiography

Baer, Jo 8

Baskin, Leonard 105

Battock, Gregory 143n. 37

Bauermeister, Mary 139

Beatles: Sergeant Pepper album cover 114–15

Bell, Larry 116

Bell, Leland 116

Benjamin, Jessica 60

Benjamin, Walter 75, 110, 126

Bersani, Leo 146n. 52

Bladen, Ronald 29

Blake, Peter: Sergeant Pepper artwork 114–15

Bloom, Harold: The Anxiety of Influence 126

Bochner, Mel 5, 32, 115, 139

‘Serial Art, System, Solipsism’ article 81, 82

Wrap: Portrait of Eva Hesse 78–9, 78

Bois, Yve-Alain 144n. 39

Bontecou, Lee 1, 5, 6, 10, 13–41, 15, 69, 107, 114, 134, 139

abstraction and aggression in work 34–40

Castelli gallery shows 3, 16, 32

darkness and void in work 13, 17, 18, 19–20, 26, 28, 33–4, 40–41

sexual readings of work 26, 28, 32, 33, 40

working method 12, 13, 20

Lincoln Center sculpture 12, 14

WORKS

Untitled (1958) (soot on paper) 20, 21

Untitled (1958) (welded steel, muslin, soot and wire) 21–2, 21

Untitled (1959) (welded steel, canvas and wire) 13, 14

Untitled (1959) (welded steel and plastic) 19

Untitled (1960) (welded steel and canvas) 23, 25

Untitled (1961) (graphite on paper) 34–5, 35

Untitled (1961) (welded steel, canvas, black fabric, rawhide, copper wire and soot) 36–7, 36

Untitled (1961) (welded steel, canvas, wire and rope) 26, 27, 28

Untitled (1961) (welded steel, canvas, wire and velvet) 36–7, 37

Untitled (1962) (welded steel, canvas, wire and grommets) (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) 16–18, 17

Untitled (1962) (welded steel, canvas, wire and grommets) (private collection) 37, 38, 39

Bourgeois, Louise 8, 46, 59, 147n.90

Brancusi, Constantine: Symbol of James Joyce 124–5, 12–5

Brecht, George 134

bricolage and Westermann’s work 90, 92–4, 107

Brown, Norman O. 57–8, 59

Brown, Trisha 47

Bruggen, Coosje van 126, 132

Burnham, Jack 11

Burri, Alberto 20

Canaday, John 106

Caro, Anthony 132

Castelli, Leo and gallery 32, 69, 114

Bontecou’s exhibitions 3, 16, 32

César 105

Chamberlain, John 10, 15, 46, 51, 59, 107, 160W.14

and Bontecou’s work 23–4

Essex 23, 24

Judd’s interest in 1, 28, 74

Chicago, Judy 26, 34

Coates, Robert 106

Conner, Bruce 85

Copley, William 119

Cornell, Joseph 70, 75–7, 82, 145n.20

Samaras’s ‘Cornell Size’ 76, 77, 81

Creed, Barbara 40

Creeley, Robert 23

Dada 101, 119

de Certeau, Michel 92

de Kooning, Willem 101, 105, 116

de Man, Paul 109

Decker, Lindsay 39

Derrida, Jacques 159n. 58

Dine, Jim 48, 51, 119, 134

Dubuffet, Jean 105

Duchamp, Marcel 92, 116, 119, 134

Dutoit, Ulysse 146n. 52

Dwan Gallery: ‘Ten’ (1966) 8

‘Eccentric Abstraction’ exhibition (1966) 8–11, 8, 56, 94, 113

exhibition flyer 9–10, 10

Elsen, Albert E. 11

‘encrypted secrets’ 82–3

erotic

‘abstract-erotic’ work 9, 31, 39, 55–6, 59

and Oldenburg’s work 39, 43–4, 46, 53, 54, 55–6, 57–9, 79

sexual readings and Bontecou’s work 26, 28, 32, 33? 40

Fahlström, Öyvind 139

Farber, Manny 106

Fer, Briony 143nn.27&39, 147nn.87&89, 150n.54

figuration 140

and Bontecou 16, 18, 26, 28, 32, 33, 35

and Nauman 122–3

and Oldenburg 44, 53

and Samaras 74

and Westermann 85–6, 96, 97, 101, 105, 111

Fischbach Gallery see ‘Eccentric Abstraction’

Flavin, Dan 1, 4, 8, 10, 74, 115

Fluxus movement 4, 50

Fontana, Lucio 20

Foster, Hal 142n.14, 159n.7

Foucault, Michel 133, 139

Freud, Sigmund 57

Fried, Michael 7–8, 85

gender and Bontecou’s work 16, 26

Glaser, Bruce 53

Golub, Leon 47

Graham, Dan 158n. 51

Green Gallery

Morris exhibition (1963) 137–8

Oldenburg exhibition (1962) 48, 49, 50

Samaras exhibition (1962) 65, 67

Greenberg, Clement 5, 54, 140

Grooms, Red 48

Hadler, Mona 18

Happenings 50, 69

Haworth, Jann: Sergeant Pepper artwork 114–15

Hepworth, Barbara 128–9

Herms, George 85

Hesse, Eva 8, 39, 46, 54, 59, 114, 147n.90

Bochner’s Wrap: Portrait of Eva Hesse 78–9, 78

Hang Up 31–2, 31

Inside I and Inside II 79–80, 80

Laöcoon 81–2

Oomamaboomba 30–31, 30

Washer Table 136, 137

Higgins, Edward 3, 160n. 14

homage see artistic homage

intergenerational relationships 101, 114–15, 116, 126–34, 140

see also artistic homage

inter-subjectivity and Oldenburg’s work 60

Jackson, Martha and gallery 48

‘New Forms – New Media’ (1960) 65, 66

Janis, Sidney and gallery 51, 52, 53

Jewish Museum, New York: ‘Recent American Sculpture’ (1964) 23–4

Johns, Jasper 32, 70, 79, 101, 119, 134, 147n.90

Judd, Donald 1–3, 6, 7, 16, 113

bedroom and artworks 1, 73–4, 73

and Bontecou 3, 13, 32–4, 35–6, 39, 40, 69

and Fried’s ‘Art and Objecthood’ 7

interview with Lippard 8, 145n.30

and ‘messiness’ of art scene 1, 3, 140, 141

and Morris 137–8, 145n.30

and Oldenburg 3, 6, 43, 46, 50, 51, 52–3, 54–5, 59–60

and relief sculpture 28, 29

and Samaras 3, 68–9, 73–4, 137–8, 159n.5

and Westermann 3, 7, 94, 96, 111

‘Local History’ article 1–2, 3, 96, 135, 140, 141

‘Specific Objects’ essay 1, 2–3, 3, 4–5, 8, 10, 11, 33, 140

Untitled (1961) 29

Untitled (1963) 4–5, 4

Judson Memorial Church, New York 47–8

Kafka, Franz 126

Kaprow, Allan 50, 69, 107

Kienholz, Edward 107

Klein, Melanie 40

Klein, Yves 115

Kozloff, Max 11, 43, 50, 90, 93, 111, 148n.4

‘The Inert and the Frenetic’ essay 56–7

‘The Poetics of Softness’ essay 54–5

Krauss, Rosalind 11, 70, 74, 75, 77, 144–5n.13

Kubler, George 81, 82

Kuehn, Gary 8, 10, 39, 46, 160n.14

Melt Piece 9, 9

Kuh, Katherine 106

Kuhn, Thomas 81

Kultermann, Udo 11, 26, 71

Kusama, Yayoi 1, 4, 10, 26, 39, 46, 147n.90, 160n. 14

Compulsion Furniture (Accumulation) 58, 59

Infinity Net paintings 2–3

Kuspit, Donald 151n. 15

Lacan, Jacques 40

LaFord, June 86

Larson, Kay 152n.42

Leider, Philip 85

Leja, Michael 97, 101

Lévi-Strauss, Claude 90, 92–3, 94, 107

Levy, Julian 119

Le Witt, Sol 8, 32, 137, 139

Lichtenstein, Roy 50

Life magazine 14

Linder, Jean 39, 46

Lippard, Lucy 6, 134, 141

‘abstract-erotic’ and Bontecou’s work 39

‘Eccentric Abstraction’ exhibition and essay 8–11, 39, 56, 94, 113

on Hesse and Samaras 79–80

interview with Judd 8, 145n.30

and Nauman 10–11, 113

on Oldenburg 43–4, 46, 50, 55–6, 58, 59

‘third stream’ between painting and sculpture 28–9, 54

on Westermann 94

Livingstone, Jane 116

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art:

‘American Sculpture of the Sixties’ (1967) 54

Louis, Morris 51

Lozano, Lee 160n.14

Man Ray see Ray, Man

Marcuse, Herbert 57

Martin, Agnes 8

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 19–20, 40–41, 74

Metro (journal) 13–14, 15

Meyer, James 142nn.5&6

Michelson, Annette 26

Mili, Gjion 132

Minimalism

and Bontecou’s work 15

Fried on 7–8

as ‘inert’ 57

and Lippard’s ‘Eccentric Abstraction’ 8–9

and Merleau-Ponty’s work 19–20

and ‘messy’ art 1, 3, 140

and relief sculpture 31–2, 40

and Samaras’s work 73–5, 77, 82–3

‘Ten’ exhibition (1966) 8

Miró, Joan 134

Mitchell, Juliet 140

Modernism and linear art history 135–6, 140

‘Monster Roster’ artists 106

Monte, James 54, 125–6

Moore, Henry

Crowd looking at a Tied-up Object 130–31, 131

and Nauman 7, 114, 126–33, 134, 135, 140, 157n.16

Morris, Robert 1, 4, 7, 8, 19, 81, 113, 114, 139

Column 137–8

‘Notes on Sculpture’ articles 11, 22–3, 74

Mulvey, Laura 153n.76

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

‘Americans 1963’ 16, 26

‘The Art of Assemblage’ (1961) 16, 23, 67, 107

‘New Images of Man’ (1959) 105–7

Namuth, Hans 13

Nauman, Bruce 5, 8, 10–11, 46, 113–35

and Moore 7, 114, 126–33, 134, 135, 14°, 157n.16

and Westermann 7, 114, 117–26, 128, 131–2, 133, 134, 135, 140

WORKS

Failing to Levitate in the Studio 159n.54

Fishing for Asian Carp (with Allan) 157n.18

Henry Moore Bound to Fail 114, 129, 130, 133, 157n.17

Henry Moore Trap I 127, 130

Large Knot Becoming an Ear (Knot Hearing Well) 119–20, 119

Letter to Bill Allan 157n.17

Light Trap for Henry Moore I 130, 130, 132

Light Trap series 132

Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body

Taken at Ten Inch Intervals 116

Seated Storage Capsule (for Henry Moore) 128, 130

Self Portrait as a Fountain 116

Six Inches of My Knee Extended to Six Feet 116

Square Knot (H. C. Westermann) 120, 121

Storage Capsule for the Right Rear Quarter of My Body 132

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths 124, 124

Untitled (1965) 112

Untitled (1967) 114, 120, 121, 122, 123, 133

Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists 115–16, 115

Westermann’s Ear 109, 114, 122–3, 123

William T. Wiley or Ray Johnson Light Trap 158–9n. 54

Neo-Dada 101

Neri, Manuel 116

‘New Forms – New Media’ exhibition (1960) 65, 66

‘New Images of Man’ exhibition (1959) 105–7

New York and sculpture in 1960s 5–6, 139

see also Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Nixon, Mignon 40, 143n.27, 149–50n.54, 157n. 14

Noland, Kenneth 51

object-subject relations and Oldenburg 59–61

‘transitional objects’ 47, 52–3, 60–61

O’Doherty, Brian 154n.4

Oldenburg, Claes 1, 5, 10, 11, 26, 32, 43–61, 114, 134, 140–41

anthropomorphism of soft sculpture 6, 43, 52–4, 56, 57, 60

eroticism in work 39, 43–4, 46, 53, 54, 55–6, 57–9, 79

Green Gallery exhibition (1962) 48, 49, 50

international exhibitions and soft sculptures 51

Neubern (imaginary world) 148n. 10

and Samaras 65

soft sculpture 54–7

tactile quality and spectator 44, 46–7, 53, 54, 58, 60–61

works as ‘transitional objects’ 47, 52–3, 60–61

WORKS

Bedroom Ensemble 50–51, 51

Floor Cake 48, 49, 50

Floor Cone 48, 49

French Fries and Ketchup 42, 43, 61

Giant Blue Men’s Pants 48, 50

Giant Toothpaste Tube 43, 44, 44

Ray Gun Models 48, 49

Soft August Calendar 48, 49

Soft Dormeyer Mixer 55, 55

Soft Fur Good Humors 46–7, 46

Soft Light Switches 4, 52, 52, 53, 55, 60

Soft Toilet 45

Soft Typewriter 44

‘The Store’ (installation) 3, 48, 59

Toilet – Hard Model 45

Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers) 44, 45, 48, 49, 50

Oldenburg, Pat 42, 43, 51, 61

Ortman, George 4

Orton, Fred 70

‘Other Tradition’ exhibition (1966) 134

Pavel, Thomas 126

Perreault, John 111

Phillips, Adam 70

Picabia, Francis 134

Picasso, Pablo 107

Pincus-Witten, Robert 26

play and Oldenburg’s work 46–7, 57–9, 60–61

‘poaching’ and Westermann’s work 92

polarity and Oldenburg 43–4

Pollock, Jackson 75, 97, 101, 105

Pop art 5, 57

and Oldenburg 11, 48, 50, 53

Post-Minimal art 113, 114

Potts, Alex 33–4, 142n.6

Potts, Don 8, 160n. 14

Process art 113

‘psychic secrets’ 82–3

psychoanalysis

and Bontecou’s work 40

and Oldenburg’s work 47, 52–3, 57–61

and Samaras’s boxes 82

and siblings 140

see also Abraham; Torok

Rainer, Yvonne 47

Rashkin, Esther 153n.79

Ratcliff, Carter 24, 26, 74, 75

Rauschenberg, Robert 4, 15, 23, 47, 51, 101, 115

Ray, Man 119, 131

The Enigma of Isadore Ducasse/The Riddle 117–18, 118, 119

‘Recent American Sculpture’ exhibition (1964) 23–4

Reinhardt, Ad 8

relief sculpture 140

Bontecou 21–3, 28–34, 40

Oldenburg 47–8

Samaras 67–8

repetition 9

Samaras’s work 77

Westermann’s work 86–7, 88, 90, 92, 109

see also seriality

Reuben, Anita and gallery 69

Roberts, Martin 94

Rockburne, Dorothea 160n. 14

Rooks, Michael 94, 15 5n.34, 156n.68

Rose, Barbara 43, 50, 54, 59, 149W.23, 153W.74

Rosenquist, James 50, 51

Rothko, Mark 97, 101

Rugg, Linda Haverty 126

Samaras, Lucas 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 32, 39, 48, 63–83, 107, 114, 116

and autobiography and self-portraiture 7, 63, 64, 69–70, 74, 75, 79–81

concealed contents and boxes 69–70, 71–3, 77, 79–81, 82

and Cornell 70, 75–7, 82

and Hesse 77–81, 81–2

and Minimalism 73–5, 77, 82–3

and Morris 137–8

WORKS

Box #1 62, 63

Box #3 71–2, 71, 79

Box: #4 72, 73–4

Box #11 81–2

‘Cornell Size’ 76, 77, 81, 82

‘An Exploratory Dissection of Viewing’ article 74–5

Untitled (1960) (wood, plaster, mirror and tacks) 63, 64, 65

Untitled (1960) (wood and plastered cloth) 66, 66

Untitled (1960) (wood, plastered crepe paper and feathers) 66–7, 67

Untitled (1960) (wood, plastered feathers, cloth and string) 65, 65

Untitled (1961) 68–9, 68

Untitled (Face Box) 63, 64

Untitled (Floorpiece) 138–9, 138

Schwitters, Kurt 134

Segal, George 48, 51, 69, 151n.8

Seitz, William 107, 110–11, 145n.33

self-portraiture and autobiography

and Nauman 116

and Samaras 7, 63, 64, 69–70, 74, 75, 79–81

and Westermann 7, 87, 88, #9, 90, 109, 111

Selz, Peter 105, 106, 107, 110–11

Sergeant Pepper album cover 114–15

seriality 81

and Bontecou 16–17, 18, 21–2

and Hesse 30, 31, 137

and Nauman 114, 119–20, 130, 131–2, 133, 135

and Oldenburg 43, 47–8

and Samaras 63

and Westermann 69, 86–7, 92–3, 111

see also repetition

Simon, Joan 122–3

Simon, John 57

small-scale sculpture and viewer 74–5, 81

Smith, David 23, 54, 129

Smith, Tony 4

Smithson, Robert 11, 33

‘Quasi-Infinities and the Waning of Space’ article 81–2

Spiral Jetty 124–5

‘Soft and Apparently Soft Sculpture’ exhibition (1968) 46

soft sculpture 54–7, 61

anthropomorphism 43, 52–4, 56, 57, 60

as ‘polymorphously perverse’ 57, 58–9

Sonnier, Keith 8, 10, 39

Untitled 56, 56, 138

Sontag, Susan 6, 53, 57

Spoerri, Daniel 107

Steiner, Michael 8

Stella, Frank 4, 16, 29, 33, 51

Stewart, Susan 81

Storr, Robert 143n.20, 155n.35

subjectivity

self and Oldenburg’s work 47, 53, 54, 59–61

and Westermann’s work 101, 105–7, 109–10, 111

see also anthropomorphism of soft sculpture; self-portraiture and autobiography

Surrealism 7–8, 9, 55, 75, 96, 101, 119, 140

Swenson, Gene 11, 134

‘Ten’ exhibition (1966) 8

Thek, Paul 79, 139, 160n.14

Tillich, Paul 105

Tillim, Sidney 50

Torok, Maria 82, 134

‘transitional objects’ 47, 52–3, 60–61

Tuchman, Maurice 11, 54

Tucker, Marcia 74

Tucker, William 132

Tuttle, Richard 113

Uttley, Wayne 86

Venice Biennale 51

Viner, Frank Lincoln 8, 39, 46

Vollmer, Ruth 160n. 14

Wagner, Anne 11, 129, 143n.27, 160n.13

Warhol, Andy 50

Watts, Robert 4

Westermann, H. C. 1, 5, 6–7, 10, 39, 47, 69, 85–111

as acrobat 105, 106, 157n. 18

Arneson’s work on 157n. 18

bricolage and work 90, 92–4, 107

and the cryptic 86, 87, 88, 111

experience of war 86, 87–8, 90, 105, 110–11

and Nauman 7, 114, 117–26, 128, 131–2, 133, 134, 135, 140

self-portraiture 7, 87, 88, 89, 90, 109, 111

on Sergeant Pepper cover 115

subjectivity and work 101, 105–7, 109–10, 111

WORKS

About a Black Magic Marker 101, 107

Angry Young Machine 103, 105

Antimobile 100, 101

The Big Change 4, 119–20, 120, 122, 122

Cliff Made Out of Tools 88, 89, 90

Death Ships 86–8, 87, 92–3, 105–6, 111

The Evil New War God (S.O.B.) 102, 105

Korea 90, 91, 97

Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea 104, 105–6, 106–7

Mysterious Yellow Mausoleum 93–4, 93

Mysteriously Abandoned New Home 84, 85, 111, 117

The Pillar of Truth 98, 98

The Plush 94, 95

The Rope Tree 96, 96

Secrets 109–10, 110

Trophy for a Gasoline Apollo 97–8, 97

Untitled (oil can) 98, 99

Untitled (question mark) viii, 3, 96, 97

Westermann’s Table 108–9, 108

Westermann, Joanna Beall 86, 88

Whitman, Robert 69, 107

Wiley, William T. 116, 117–19, 131

Windsor, Jackie 46

Winnicott, D. W. 47, 59, 60–61

word-portraits 76, 77–9, 78, 115

Zorach, William 20

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