num_pages: 50
description: CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE UNWRAPPEDIn 1981 two artists -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude -- proposed an installation in New York's Central Park that would span twenty-three miles. They received a 185-page response from the Parks Department that could have been summed up in one single word: no. But they persisted. This biography of contemporary artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude is a story of the power of collaboration and vision and of the creation of the spectacular Gates and other renowned artworks.Christo and Jeanne-Claude is a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
language: English
title: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond
publisher: Roaring Brook Press