Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Cleveland’s Free Stamp. Edward J. Olszewski

      Invitation to the dedication of Free Stamp

      Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Cleveland’s Free Stamp

       Edward J. Olszewski

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      Front cover: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Free Stamp, 1990, Willard Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by author

      Half title page: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Free Stamp, interior view. Photo by John T. Seyfried © ICA-Art Conservation 2015

      Page 190: Free Stamp (with Cesar Pelli’s Key Bank Building)

      Back cover: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, and Frank Gehry at Gehry’s office, September 1988. Photograph © 1988 Sidney F. Felsen

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Olszewski, Edward J., 1937– author.

      Title: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Cleveland’s Free Stamp / Edward J. Olszewski.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017023507| ISBN 9780821422717 (hardback) | ISBN 9780821446034 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Oldenburg, Claes, 1929–Free stamp. | Oldenburg, Claes, 1929—Criticism and interpretation. | Bruggen, Coosje van—Criticism and interpretation. | Outdoor sculpture—Ohio—Cleveland. | Public sculpture—Ohio—Cleveland. | BISAC: ART / History / Contemporary (1945–).

      Classification: LCC NB237.O42 A64 2017 | DDC 730.92—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017023507

      CONTENTS

       List of Illustrations

       Preface

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       1. Sohio, Free Stamp, and BP

       2. The Artists

       3. Sculptural Collaborations

       4. Rejection and Recuperation

       5. The Legal Issue

       6. Impasse: June 1986 to September 1989

       7. Other Voices, Other Rooms

       8. Rejected Sculpture

       9. An Early Apologetic

       10. Pop Art

       11. Formalism

       12. A Meeting of Minds

       13. Fabrication

       14. The Final Phase

       15. Public Art

       16. Re: Locations

       17. The Sketches

       18. How Stamps Function

       19. Construction of a Hand Stamp

       20. Space in Time

       21. Cognition

       22. Events Postinstallation

       Postscript

       Appendix A: Petition Letter of September 15, 1989, to Mr. James H. Ross

       Appendix B: Ordinance No. 1320-85, May 22, 1985

       Chronology

       Notes