Christo and Jeanne-Claude : On the Way to the Gates, Central Park, New York City

by Jonathan Fineberg; Photographs by Wolfgang Volz

• ISBN13: 9780300101386
• ISBN10: 0300101384
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-04-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are renowned for their dramatic and innovative public projects. Their installations often feature fabric -- sometimes wrapped around existing structures or used to create large-scale temporary environments. Some of their most influential projects include Running Fence in Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, Surrounded Islands in Miami, The Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris, The Umbrellas, Japan-USA simultaneously in Japan and California, and the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin. Now New York City, where they have lived and worked for forty years, will be the site for a much-anticipated Christo and Jeanne-Claude project. The Gates will consist of saffron-colored fabric panels suspended from the horizontal tops of around 7,500 sixteen-foot-tall vinyl gates, positioned at regular intervals throughout 23 miles of walkways in Central Park. The installation will be on view for sixteen days, beginning February 12, 2005.

Author Biography

Jonathan Fineberg is Gutgsell Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Champaign Wolfgang Volz has been the exclusive photographer for all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's projects since 1972

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
On the Way to The Gates	p. 3
The Gates	p. 59
Captions
Interviews
Christo, 1977	p. 127
Christo, 1982	p. 151
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1983	p. 157
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2003	p. 169
Chronology	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 199
Museum Collections	p. 205
Acknowledgments	p. 207
Index	p. 209
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