Thanksgiving Deal Store Days: Documents From The Store (1961) And Ray Gun Theater (1962), Very Good Holiday Cheer Edition [Q2rkcLO8]

Oldenburg, Claes (Editor), Emmett Williams (Editor), and Robert R. McElroy (Photographs). Store Days: Documents from The Store (1961) and Ray Gun Theater (1962) (New York: Something Else Press, Inc., 1967).

English, Very Good, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 8 1/2" x 3/4," unpaginated, includes illustrations.

ISBN: N/A

Very Good beige cloth-covered boards with embossed lettering on front and silver foil lettering on a decorative pink rectangle on beige spine. Covers have light age toning, a few faint smudges, and slightly bumped tips, else clean and intact. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Replete with black-and-white illustrations. Conceptual art book featuring Claes Oldenburg's immersive installation artworks that also doubled as performance art, The Store (1961) and Ray Gun Theater (1962). The Store featured readymade objects meant to evoke commercial products one might find in a retail store; Oldenburg's store included such items as cigarettes, lingerie, and hamburgers. Ray Gun Theater also included readymades and involved interactive experiments and tests performed by Oldenburg. Included herein are images of the two artworks and many extracts of Oldenburg's thoughts and other documentation of the installations.