...Oldenburg had written in an early statement that his view of art was firmly rooted in human anatomy: I am for an art that takes its form from the lines...and sweet and stupid as life itself. . . . I am for art that is put on and taken off, like pants, which develops holes, like socks, which is eaten, like...

...that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. ... I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself . . ." (quoted in Selz, 1992, p. 220). A number of new areas of artistic vision have been opened up...

...for an art that imitates the human, that is comic if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life, that twists and extends impossibly and accumulates and spits and drips and is sweet and stupid as life...

...art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. / 1 am for an art that takes its form from the lines of...coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself." Twenty years later, Lithuanian artist Valentinas Antanavicius (b. 1936), in the 1981 catalogue of his...

...the Seventies Audience," Artforum 18 (January 1980): 23. an art that takes its form from the lives of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates...coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself."" Even earlier in the century, Kurt Schwitters used junk to create his Merzbau environments (1919), realizing...

...satisfied with total abstraction, nor feel happy restricting himself to one rigidly theoretical style. 'I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself,' he declared, making a clear stand against the Abstract Expressionism of older-generation artists like...

...language. "I am for art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends . . . and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself." (Oldenburg). Claes Oldenburg's sculptures are often set in public areas in towns or landscapes where...

...properties of vinyl. And Oldenburg's language is all but explicit: "I am for an art that takes its form from life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates...coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself" (quoted in Rose 190). This collapsed phallicism can be connected to the terms in which Lacan is thinking...