Yves Klein
Yves Klein

Author: Sidra Stich

Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9783893226573

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Yves Klein is one of the most extraordinary and influential figures in post-war avant-garde art. In less than a decade - up until his untimely death in 1962 - he forged a career and built up a body of work that together have influenced and inspired contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists worldwide. Klein sought in his art to liberate the senses, to heighten our sensibility and to intensify our experience of life. In this comprehensive review of his art and ideas, Sidra Stich examines the full range of his diverse creative output - his paintings and sculptures, installations, meticulously documented performances, his copious writings, and his proposals and drawings for visionary projects - and sets them within the context of the art of the time to assess Klein's originality and his legacy.

Klein
Klein

Author: Hannah Weitemeier

Publisher: Taschen

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9783822856437

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In a short but intense creative life of just seven years, Klein painted over a thousand pictures which are among the classics of modern art. This book offers a sample of his work.

Yves Klein Painted Everything Blue and Wasn't Sorry.
Yves Klein Painted Everything Blue and Wasn't Sorry.

Author: Fausto Gilberti

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2019-09-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781838660147

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A clever, quirky read-aloud biography of a leading modern artist, for kids Artist Yves Klein always thought about how he could surprise his audience. One day, he decided that he would only paint in one color - blue. He painted canvases, globes, branches, gallery floors, and even covered people in blue paint. Klein's story is told here with wit and eccentricity, perfectly paired with black-line illustrations and blue splashes galore. Fausto Gilberti brings movement, life, and whimsy to the true life story of one of the most important modern French artists of our time.

Yves Klein: Japan
Yves Klein: Japan

Author:

Publisher: Dilecta

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9782373720860

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How Yves Klein's formative period in Japan formed his dual pursuits of art and judo Yves Klein (1928-62) first traveled to Japan as a young man in 1952, motivated primarily by his interest in judo. During his 15 months abroad, Klein had numerous important creative and philosophical revelations that culminated in the launch of his artistic career upon his return to Paris. Prepared in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, this volume details Klein's relationship with Japan through nearly 150 archival documents, photographs and letters, inviting the reader on his journey from martial arts to fine art at the very beginning of his career. Along the way we learn of Klein's important encounters with art critic Takachiyo Uemura, painter Keizo Koyama and design professor Masaki Yamaguchi. Yves Klein: Japan provides essential insight into the origins of Klein's oeuvre as both a groundbreaking visual artist and prolific writer whose short-lived career helped to transform postwar art.

Yves Klein
Yves Klein

Author: Denys Riout

Publisher: Dilecta Edition

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782916275741

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In April 1958, Yves Klein presented an exhibition in which no painting, no sculpture, no object was visible. Thanks to this 'immaterialization of the painting' he hoped to 'create an ambience, a pictorial climate that is invisible but present'. This book locates the profound unity of the artist's preoccupations.

Writings/Interviews
Writings/Interviews

Author: Richard Serra

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1994-08-15

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0226748804

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One of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether urban, natural, or architectural, and about the nature of art itself, whether political, decorative, or personal. In interviews with writers including Douglas and Davis Sylvester, he discusses specific installations and offers insights into his approach to the problem each presents. Interviews by Peter Eisenman and Alan Colquhoun elicit Serra's thoughts on the relation of architecture to contemporary sculpture, a primary component in his own work. From essays like "Extended Notes from Sight Point Road" to Serra's extended commentary on the Tilted Arc fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's engagement with the practical, philosophical, and political problems of art.

Yves Klein by Himself
Yves Klein by Himself

Author: Klaus Ottmann

Publisher: Dilecta Edition

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782916275734

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This is an intellectual biography of one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century, Yves Klein. It intermixes biographical fact with texts written by artists who have been inspired by him.

Yves Klein
Yves Klein

Author: Yves Klein

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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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.

Yves Klein
Yves Klein

Author: Yves Klein

Publisher: Delano Greenridge Editions

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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At a moment when the progress of technology brings the first half of the twentieth century to the depths of the Middle Ages or the late Empire, the message I bear within me is that of life and nature, and I would have you share it, in as much as my companions will know my thinking even better than myself: for they are thousands, they will reflect it thousands of times, while I myself am only one... At the crossroads of light where I have arrived, there are but two possible paths: the path of obscurity, withdrawal, maceration, meditation, and renunciation, and the more arduous and glorious path of sacrifice to the community.