Claes Oldenburg Retrospective. Tate Gallery,London, 1970 - ACE455.4

Exhibition; visitors. Exhibits include Blue Shirt and Soft Typewriter (1963). Black. Various brief images including a Knee, Oldenburg drawing Plug, arranging exhibits, Tate architectural features. Oldenburg VO talking about "dropping out", the expense of art works and the sale value of "multiples". Oldenburg talking to audience about having difficulty relating to a retrospective of his work, death is "an unmentionable subject", his work is "about avoiding death" or "a dialogue with death", a "declaration against art". Gallery attendants. Black. Attendants. Guests at gallery reception; Oldenburg chatting, eating etc.; coloured melted ice-cream in road; reception; police van outside gallery, guests. Hearse and church. Wilke undressing and dressing behind rose bush. Oldenburg filming. Richard Hamilton and others; Wilke and Oldenburg. Black. Police car outside Tate. Policemen with ice-cream vendor. Taking away his stock; towing the trolley which overturns; righting it. Melted ice-cream flowing along road. Police van, trolley, policeman and police car go away in convoy. Black. Cooling towers. Oldenburg on see-saw. Various shots of towers and nearby buildings and open spaces. Still of towers; black. Hawaiian music and chattering voices over.