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Book Christo  Prints and Objects  1963 1987

Download or read book Christo Prints and Objects 1963 1987 written by Jörg Schellmann and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christo Prints and Objects  1963 1987

Download or read book Christo Prints and Objects 1963 1987 written by Christo and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valley Curtain, Running Fence, Surrounded Islands, and many other have been vividly captured in his distinctive hand, providing lasting documents of epherneral experiences. Christo also uses his prints to try out new ideas: many of the prints in his catalogue raisonne embody projects planned but never enacted; a few envision projects never intended for translation into three dimensions.

Book Christo Prints and Objects  1963 1987

Download or read book Christo Prints and Objects 1963 1987 written by Christo and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valley Curtain, Running Fence, Surrounded Islands, and many other have been vividly captured in his distinctive hand, providing lasting documents of epherneral experiences. Christo also uses his prints to try out new ideas: many of the prints in his catalogue raisonne embody projects planned but never enacted; a few envision projects never intended for translation into three dimensions.

Book Christo and Jeanne Claude  Prints and Objects  1963 95

Download or read book Christo and Jeanne Claude Prints and Objects 1963 95 written by Christo and published by Schirmer/Mosel. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pop Impressions Europe USA

Download or read book Pop Impressions Europe USA written by Wendy Weitman and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay by Wendy Weitman.

Book Christo and Jeanne Claude

Download or read book Christo and Jeanne Claude written by Burt Chernow and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For their sheer scale and breathtaking audacity, their works have made them among the most celebrated and controversial artists in the world. Valley Curtain stretched 1,250 feet across a valley in Rifle, Colorado; Wrapped Coast covered a mile and a half of Australian coastline with a million square feet of fabric; The Umbrellas deployed 3,100 umbrellas set in Japan and California, each nearly twenty feet tall; Surrounded Islands encircled eleven islands in Biscayne Bay, Florida with six and a half million square feet of bright pink fabric; and Wrapped Reichstag enveloped the entire German parliament in shimmering silver fabric. For more than forty years, these and many other works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude have reconceived the art of the possible, turned natural and human monuments-streets, bridges, hills, trees, buildings, parks, and islands-into sculptures and paintings, and created dazzling new landscapes and startling new vistas. Often requiring years, even decades, of preparation and planning, these works-not merely feats of aesthetic daring but engineering and organizational marvels-exist for only a few weeks or less. Yet what makes these transient creations linger forever in the mind is their overwhelming and magisterial beauty. They are, in every sense, transformative, and, for the millions who have experienced them in person, unforgettable. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been the frequent subjects of films, videos, catalogues, cartoons, monographs, exhibitions, and editorials. Until this biography by Burt Chernow, however, written with the full cooperation of the artists, nothing has connected the intimate details of their lives and the spectacular dimensions of their projects. Christo, the penniless Bulgarian refugee who made his way to Paris during the 1950s, and Jeanne-Claude, the socialite daughter of a prominent French general, seemed an unlikely couple, yet together they forged one of the most enduring partnerships in contemporary art. When they arrived in New York in 1964, Christo was already becoming well known in avant-garde circles for his wrappings of everyday objects; Jeanne-Claude acted as manager, dealer, and accountant. Over time, as Chernow reveals, the fusion of their prodigious gifts-his drawings and her ability to draw things together-produced the works for which today they are known the world over. Chernow recounts their rise from relative obscurity to international renown, revealing both the sources of their art and the heights to which it has quite literally aspired. An epilogue by Wolfgang Volz, a longtime and close collaborator of the artists, as well as their exclusive photographer, provides a fascinating insider's view of what it is like to work, and dream, with them. Christo and Jeanne-Claude is an indelible portrait of the artists and their work, and a moving account of an extraordinary couple.

Book Christo and Jeanne Claude Prints and Objects

Download or read book Christo and Jeanne Claude Prints and Objects written by Werner Spies and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Books

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  • Author : Wolfgang M. Freitag
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-28
  • ISBN : 1134830416
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book Art Books written by Wolfgang M. Freitag and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. For this second edition of Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists, the vast number of new books published since 1985 was surveyed and evaluated. This has resulted in the selection of 3,395 additional titles. These selections, reflective of the increase in the monographic literature on artists during the last ten years, are evidence of the activities of a larger number of art historians in more countries worldwide, of the increasingly diverse and ambitious exhibition programs of museums whose number has also increased dramatically, and also of a lively international art market and the attendant gallery activities. The selections of the first edition have been reviewed, errors have been corrected and important new editions and reprints have been noted. The second edition contains 278 names of artists not represented in the first edition.

Book Christo

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  • Author : Christo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Christo written by Christo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays focusing on Christo as an artist and on his art. Includes images of 'Wrapped coast - one million square feet, Little Bay, Australia'.

Book A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.

Book American Printmakers of the Twentieth Century

Download or read book American Printmakers of the Twentieth Century written by Donald E. Smith and published by Saint Johann Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christo from Lilja Collection

Download or read book Christo from Lilja Collection written by Christo and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Living Object

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  • Author : Elizabeth Ann Brown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Living Object written by Elizabeth Ann Brown and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christo and Jeanne Claude

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  • Author : Museo d'arte moderna (Lugano, Switzerland)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Christo and Jeanne Claude written by Museo d'arte moderna (Lugano, Switzerland) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 40 years after their first wrapping of a public building, this book celebrates the artistic production of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artist-couple who came into view in the second half of the 20th century. The catalogue presents the couple's artistic evolution from 1958 to the present.

Book Christo and Jeanne Claude

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  • Author : Germano Celant
  • Publisher : Silvana Editoriale
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Christo and Jeanne Claude written by Germano Celant and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2016 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Water Projects, edited by Germano Celant in collaboration with con CVJ Corporation, is the title of the catalogue (published in English and Italian) released on the occasion of the exhibition by the same title, opening in Brescia at the Santa Giulia Museum, April 7, 2016. The catalogue includes Christo and Jeanne-Claude's realized and not realized large-scale projects from 1961 to 2016. Besides the famous wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967-1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971-1995), the publication also includes the barriers made with barrels or with fabric, from Wall of Oil Barrells -- The Iron Curtain in Paris (1961-62) to Valley Curtain in Rifle, Colorado (1960-62), the great inflatable objects, from 42,390 Cubic Feet Package of Minneapolis (1966) to 5600 Cubicmeter Package, Project for documenta IV in Kassel (1967-1968), and the fabric pathways, such as Wrapped Walk Ways in Kansas City (1977-1978), or doors, such as The Gates in New York (1979-2005). The seven Water Projects -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installations sharing a connection with water -- are considered in further depth. In these projects, from Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California (1972-1976) to Over the River, project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado (1992), the artists worked establishing a close connection with natural, suburban and urban landscapes which all share a relation with water, be it an ocean, a sea, a lake or a river. Among the Water Projects we must mention The Floating Piers, an installation opening June 18 to July 3, 2016, which will allow visitors to walk across Lake Iseo and along its shores on a 3-kilometre route. By means of modular floating piers covered in shimmering yellow fabric, the installation will link the town of Sulzano on the lake's shores, to Monte Isola, also reaching the Island of San Paolo. Every work included in the catalogue is accompanied by an explanatory text with all the relevant technical and historical information, along with preparatory drawings, collages, scale models, and photographic documentation of the project's phases of ideation, preparation and realization. The catalogue, besides a rich photographic section, includes an introductory text by Germano Celant and a dialogue between the curator and Christo. The volume also comprises the artists' biography and a complete list of projects, bibliography and filmography."--

Book Naked Barbies  Warrior Joes  and Other Forms of Visible Gender

Download or read book Naked Barbies Warrior Joes and Other Forms of Visible Gender written by Jeannie B. Thomas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this folkloric examination of mass-produced material culture in the United States, Jeannie Banks Thomas examines the gendered sculptural forms that are among the most visible, including Barbie, Ken, and G.I. Joe dolls; yard figures (gnomes, geese, and flamingos); and cemetery statuary (angels, sports-related images, figures of the Virgin Mary, soldiers, and politicians). Images of females are often emphasized or sexualized, frequently through nudity or partial nudity, whereas those of the male body are not only clothed but also armored in the trappings of action and aggression. Thomas locates these various objects of folk art within a discussion of the post-women's movement discourse on gender. In addition to the items themselves, Thomas explores the stories and behaviors they generate, including legends of the supernatural about cemetery statues, oral narratives of yard artists and accounts of pranks involving yard art, narratives about children's play with Barbie, Ken, and G.I. Joe, and the electronic folklore (or "e-lore") about Barbie that circulates on the Internet.