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LCR, in the second act, entitled "1960-1970-e" can confidently introduce a new protagonist, unjustly forgotten by the unknown author of wonderful tables.

Soft-art. Movement that emerged in the 60's., Which is based on the use of soft and elastic materials for the sculpture, figurative work, which was given (yes, in general, and still other artists are still attached to) the state of some unfinished form. Founder of the soft-Art is Kles Oldenburgh - Swede by birth, but full amerikosy to grasp, tricks, and the blue by the time pasportine. When the siding in New York to a group of artists united not so much because of the general aesthetic purposes and ideals, but because of the hostility towards abstract expressionism, then raging in the arty American minds, he began to experiment with their own heppenings on the basis of the material itself, which provided in abundance in those years, the very atmosphere of New York's lives. Kles opened a company store "The Store", if I remember correctly, which successfully sold a very original objects, playfully making their intellectual and eccentric contribution to the formation of taste New York's establishment, but at the same time - and all the surrounding peasantry and the immense American prairies. America did it - how greedy cow, you need only look nice and confidently present and she swallows it all - from the Atlantic to the el-hi. However, this is a different story .. Well, then that happened and I believe in art scholarship light deviation from the materiality considered quintessence. The fact that the soft plastic sculptures, refleksirovavshie Oldenburg with his characteristic sense of humor products of mass consumption times of universal psychosis led to his erroneous reference to the genre of pop art. Personally, I can hardly imagine his unconditional belonging to this direction, with all that, some experts from the art history in a hurry even managed to make it one of the leaders of pop art