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False Food Selection
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One of a small number of prototypes for a planned but never editioned multiple. Oldenburg recalls that this planned Fluxus edition was a variation of another planned, unrealized edition with Multiples, Inc. for a lunch box with several handmade objects to be cast and encased in plastic. He notes that "in order to conform to the Fluxus movement's emphasis on found objects, I proposed a selection of purchased food imitations, like many of the items found in the 'museum'. Maciunas would obtain as many items as he could from various suppliers. I would choose from among them until I has a group I liked." (Claes Oldenburg: Multiples in Retrospect, p. 24). The box, divided into five compartments, contains 24 items, including (1) ham & eggs (glued to the inside of the lid); in compartment 1: 1 pickle, 1 hot dog, and 1 oatmeal cookie; compartment 2: 1 tomato and 1 pear; compartment 3: 5 "Bakeland" cookies, 5 round butter cookies, 1 "Milk Arrowroot" biscuit, and 1 poppyseed roll; compartment 4: 4 petit-fours, 1 chocolate doughnut; and compartment 5: 1 banana.
Rights: © Claes Oldenburg
Department of Prints
Barbara Moore Bound/Unbound New York New York partial gift partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums June 28 2005.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection Margaret Fisher Fund and gift of Barbara Moore/Bound & Unbound
Title: False Food Selection
Description:
One of a small number of prototypes for a planned but never editioned multiple.
Oldenburg recalls that this planned Fluxus edition was a variation of another planned, unrealized edition with Multiples, Inc.
for a lunch box with several handmade objects to be cast and encased in plastic.
He notes that "in order to conform to the Fluxus movement's emphasis on found objects, I proposed a selection of purchased food imitations, like many of the items found in the 'museum'.
Maciunas would obtain as many items as he could from various suppliers.
I would choose from among them until I has a group I liked.
" (Claes Oldenburg: Multiples in Retrospect, p.
24).
The box, divided into five compartments, contains 24 items, including (1) ham & eggs (glued to the inside of the lid); in compartment 1: 1 pickle, 1 hot dog, and 1 oatmeal cookie; compartment 2: 1 tomato and 1 pear; compartment 3: 5 "Bakeland" cookies, 5 round butter cookies, 1 "Milk Arrowroot" biscuit, and 1 poppyseed roll; compartment 4: 4 petit-fours, 1 chocolate doughnut; and compartment 5: 1 banana.
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