Overcoming the Problems of Art The Writings of Yves Klein

by Klein, Yves; Ottmann, Klaus

• ISBN13: 9780882145686
• ISBN10: 0882145681
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Spring Pubns

Summary

This is the first complete collection of the writings of the visonary French conceptual artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) to be published in English translation. Klein was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet deeply spiritual. Inspired by his study of the Japanese Kata (the abstract movements in Judo), Rosicrucian cosmogony, alchemy, and the phenomenological and psychological philosophies that emerged during his lifetime (particularly the writings of Gaston Bachelard), he constructed his vision of a future art that would purify the soul and society from the ashes of painting. >

Table of Contents

The Writings of Yves Klein
On Judo	p. 1
Some (False) Foundations, Principles, Etc. and the Condemnation of Evolution	p. 5
Art	p. 9
Text for the Exhibition "Yves Peintures" at Lacoste Publishing House, Paris, 15 October 1955	p. 12
Some Excerpts from My Journal of 1957	p. 13
My Position in the Battle Between Line and Color	p. 19
Notes on Certain Works Exhibited at Galerie Colette Allendy	p. 22
The Blue Cries of Charles Estienne	p. 24
The Blue Revolution: Letter to Eisenhower, 20 May 1958	p. 25
The Blue Sea: Letter to the Secretary General of the International Geophysical Year	p. 27
Blue Explosions: Letter to the International Conference for the Detection of Atomic Explosions	p. 28
"Pure Velocity and Monochrome Stability": An Account of the Exhibition in Collaboration with Jean Tinguely at Galerie Iris Clert	p. 30
Speech to the Gelsenkirchen Theater Commission	p. 38
The Concept for Gelsenkirchen	p. 43
Overcoming the Problematics of Art	p. 45
The Evolution of Art Towards the Immaterial: Lecture at the Sorbonne	p. 71
Selections from "Dimanche"	p. 99
The Monochrome Adventure: The Monochrome Epic	p. 137
Project for an Architecture of Air by Yves Klein and Werner Ruhnau	p. 174
The Truth About New Realism	p. 176
Prayer to St. Rita	p. 180
Ritual for the Relinquishment of the Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility Zones	p. 182
Truth Becomes Reality	p. 183
Chelsea Hotel Manifesto	p. 193
Dialogue with Myself	p. 201
With Regard to My Attempt at the Immaterial	p. 207
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