Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks [SEP] material used
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks is a weathering steel sculpture by Claes Oldenburg. 
It is located at Morse College Courtyard, Yale University.
History.
An architecture student, Stuart Wrede, and a group of architecture students raised money, under the name of the Colossal Keepsake Corporation of Connecticut, and worked in collaboration with Claes Oldenburg.
It was installed on May 15, 1969, in Beinecke Plaza at Yale University, as a speakers' platform for anti-
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks", was removed from its original place in Beinecke Plaza at Yale University, and "circulated on a loan basis to other campuses". With its "bright color, contemporary form and material and its ignoble subject, it attacked the sterility and pretentiousness of the classicistic building behind it." The artist "pointed out it opposed levity to solemnity, color to colorlessness, metal to stone, simple to asophisticated tradition. In theme, it is both phallic, life-engendering, and