Yves Klein Fire at the Heart of the Void, 2nd Edition

by Restany, Pierre

• ISBN13: 9780882145648
• ISBN10: 0882145649
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-10
• Publisher: CONTINUUM

Summary

One of the most thorough examination of one of twentieth-century's most influential artist by the eminent French critic Pierre Restany. "The aim of this book," Restany begins, "is to situate fire in Yves Klein's work from the triple perspectives of mythic projection, ritual symbology, and artistic practice." No one embraced color more radically than the French conceptual artist and "painter of the Void" Yves Klein (1928-1962) who, by leaping into the empty space of his blue monochromes, broke with every tradition of painting in ways that have yet to be fully appreciated. Inspired by his study of the Japanese Kata (the abstract movements in Judo), Rosicrucian cosmogony, alchemy, and mysticism, and the phenomenological and structuralist philosophies that emerged during his lifetime (particularly the writings of Gaston Bachelard), Fire became central to Klein's quest for the Immaterial.With a new introduction by Klaus Ottmann.

Table of Contents

KLAUS OTTMANN
Introduction	vii
PIERRE RESTANY
A Few Words to Serve as a Preamble to the New Edition	xvii
Translated from the French by JULIE BARANES
Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void	1	(3)
Translated from the French by ANDREA LOSELLE
WHAT HAPPENED ON MAY 14, 1957?	4	(6)
THE MAJOR ACT OF APRIL 28, 1958	10	(4)
FIRE, VOID, AND ASHES	14	(4)
FIRE AND SUN: GOLD	18	(4)
FIRE AND BLOOD: THE COLOR PINK AND ITS PLACE IN THE CHROMATIC TRINITY	22	(6)
FROM GELSENKIRCHEN TO KREFELD: FIRE, WATER, AIR, MATERIALS FOR THE ARCHITECTURE OF PARADISE	28	(10)
THE FLAMBOYANT PERIOD	38	(5)
AFTER THE AMERICAN INTERLUDE: GOLD IN THE FLAME OF FIRE	43	(4)
FIERY SUBLIMATION AND ITS COSMIC MARK	47	(5)
SHADOW AND LIGHT: THE GOLD SUN AND THE BLACK SUN	52	(6)
I WILL PUT MY HAND INTO THE FIRE	58	(5)
THE CENTRAL POINT	63	(5)
NOTES	68	(13)
PLATES	81