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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Christo und Jeanne-Claude – Prints and Objects
| Editor | Jörg Schellmann |
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2021 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | English, German |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-4883-4 |
| Pages | 280 |
| Weight | 1820 g |
| Illustrations | with 280 ills |
| More | |
| Contributors | Matthias Koddenberg |
| Article ID | art-45277 |
An updated catalog of the smaller-scale works created by installation art’s most iconic duo!
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: the man with the glasses and the woman with the red hair. Each one was born on the same day in 1935, and this unusual artist couple worked together until Jeanne-Claude’s death in 2009, changing the art world in the process. In large-scale actions they enveloped buildings and entire landscapes in various materials, revealing at the same time their essence and beauty. In order to finance these enormous works of art by themselves, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began making editions early on in their career—prints, collages, and objects. This completely revised, expanded, and updated catalogue of works, Prints and Objects, is testimony to the artist’s impressive scope and to their courage. Who else would have had the idea of building a 120-meter-tall truncated pyramid out of 410,000 oil barrels in the desert of the United Arab Emirates?
CHRISTO (1935–2020) and JEANNE-CLAUDE (1935–2009) were an artist couple who became known from the 1960s onwards primarily for their jointly realized spectacular wrapping projects, such as the wrapping of the Reichstag building, the Valley Curtains, and most recently Christo alone with the Floating Piers.
