Yves Klein

by Berggruen, Olivier; Hollein, Max; Pfeiffer, Ingrid

• ISBN13: 9783775714471
• ISBN10: 3775714472
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-30
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Yves Klein was regarded as a visionary even by his contemporaries. An enfant terrible and outstanding judo enthusiast whose spectacular performances attracted considerable attention in the art world, Klein created a following that only intensified in the wake of his premature death. Having anticipated numerous movements such as Happenings, Performance, Land and Body Art, and Conceptual Art, Klein's manifold oeuvre, realized within a period of only eight years, continues to exercise a decisive influence to this day. This comprehensive retrospective, presented by the Schirn Kunsthalle gallery in Frankfurt, includes over 100 works representing Klein's entire career from his first monochromes in orange, yellow, green, pink, black, and white, to his famous Klein blue monochromes, his sponge relief sculptures, his much-discussed Anthropometries, for which he used female models as live brushes, his monogold paintings, and his last experiments with fire and elements of nature.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
From the myth of objecthood to the order of space : Yves Klein's adventures in the void	p. 15
Seven years for posterity	p. 39
Yves Klein : stations in Germany	p. 55
Driving in the depths near Cap Ferrat	p. 87
The Dissolution of the ritual into the void	p. 109
When someone asks me	p. 118
An encounter with Yves Klein's blue universe	p. 119
Precious bodily fluids	p. 141
Yves Klein and the war of the jealous gods	p. 153
Architectures of the intensive body	p. 179
Biography	p. 215
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