ABSTRACT
The chapter examines the work of the Swedish born American artist and sculptor Claes Oldenburg. It focuses on Oldenburg's London Knees 1966 and his proposals for colossal monuments in the form of knees situated around London. Claes Oldenburg appears to have a keen interest on the relation among sculpture, architecture and monument. He appears to understand the technical constrains of his proposals when he comes to realise his projects. Oldenburg's visual critique differs from the classical approach to the human body, but he also transforms the classical to an up-to-date model, it brings it to the specific time of the 60s presenting the mass model of exhibitionism as a decorative and structural part of a building. Mass culture creates mass art or mass meaning visually critiqued onto one object, as for Oldenburg's London Knees 1966 proposals. His work reveals an overwhelming metaphoric description of the 60s catastasis that fashion brought.
