Yves Klein
Subtitle: with the void, full powers
By: organized by Kerry Brougher, Philippe Vergne ; texts by Kerry Brougher ... et al.
Contributors: Brougher, Kerry.; Vergne, Philippe.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.; Walker Art Center.
Edition: 1st English language ed.
Publisher: Walker Art Center; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; HirshhornMuseumandSculptureGardenWalkerArtCenter; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Walker Art Center
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN; Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780935640946; 9783775726498
Subjects: Klein, Yves, -- 1928-1962 -- Exhibitions; Klein, Yves, -- 1928-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "One of the last century's most influential artists, Yves Klein (1928-1962) took the European art scene by slorm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34. He was an innovator who embraced painting, sculpture, performance, photography, music, theater, film, architecture, and theoretical writing. Self-identified as "the painter of space," Klein sought to achieve immaterial spirituality through pure color (primarily an ultramarine blue of his own invention--international Klein Blue) and even went so far as to present white galleries emplied of all artworks for his renowned 1958 exhibition of "the Void." His diverse ocuvre respresents a pivotal trnsition from modern art's concern with the material object of contemporary notions of the conceptual nature of art." "Yves Klein: with the Void, Full Powers is published to accompany the first major retrospective of the artist's work in the United States in nearly 30 years. It includes examples from all of Klein's major series, including his Anthropometries, Cosmogonies, Fire Paintings, planetary reliefs, and blue monochromes, as well as selections of his lesser-known gold and pink monochromes, body and sponge reliefs, "air architecture," and immaterial works. I ssays by curators Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne, Klein Scholar Klaus Ottmann, art historian Kaira Cabanas, and curatorial fellow Andria Hickey, as well as archival materials and translations of his published and unpublished writings offer insights into Klein's artistic endeavors and process."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, May 20/September 12, 2010, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23, 2010/February 13, 2011."

Includes bibliographical references.