Floor Cake

Created in 1962 by American artist Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cake is a pioneering soft sculpture measuring nearly ten feet in length. Fabricated from synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas stuffed with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, the work represents an enormous slice of chocolate layer cake resting directly on the gallery floor. First presented at the Green Gallery in New York and now held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, it helped establish everyday consumer goods and commercial food as prime subjects for monumental Pop sculpture.

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