Klein

Klein
Author: Hannah Weitemeier
Publisher: Taschen
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783822856437

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

Yves Klein
Author: Sidra Stich
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783893226573

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.

Yves Klein: Incandescence

Yves Klein: Incandescence
Author: Frédéric Prot
Publisher: 5Continents
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788874396252

French painter Yves Klein (1928?1962) stands as one of the most exciting artists of the 20th century. A founding member of the New Realism movement, he was also a pioneer in performance art and installations, and a forerunner of body art, land art, and conceptual art. During his meteoric eight-year career, Klein expressed his vision through a wide range of media, including pure color (notably a deep, bright blue now known as Yves Klein Blue), architecture, sculpture, literature, and music. This book looks afresh at Klein's works, and especially those that involve fire. Klein used fire to represent the mysterious and intangible elements of the world: He believed that an artist's transfiguration of reality could change a viewer's personal values, and his aim was to usher in an age of happy and fulfilled humankind. Here, images of his spectacular mur de feu or ?wall of fire,” along with his monochromes, monogolds, drawings, letters, and articles, as well as pictures of Klein producing his works, are testament to the artist's belief in the spiritual power of art. This magnificent volume includes a fascinating DVD of archival footage of Klein creating art with fire. The 12-minute DVD shows Klein creating the Mur de feu (Wall of Fire) and the Fontaine de feu (Fountain of Fire) for an exhibition in Germany in 1961, filmed by Yvan Butler, and the Peintures de feu (Fire Paintings) in France in 1962, filmed by Albert Weill. Newly composed music by Daniel Humair accompanies the films.

Drawing from the Modern

Drawing from the Modern
Author: Jodi Hauptman
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780870706646

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar. 30-Aug. 29, 2005.

Modern Paints Uncovered

Modern Paints Uncovered
Author:
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007
Genre: Museum conservation methods
ISBN: 089236906X

Paint formulations and historyAnalysis and characterizationTreatmentsCleaning issuesBehavior and propertiesPosters.

Yves Klein: Japan

Yves Klein: Japan
Author:
Publisher: Dilecta
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9782373720860

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.

In/out Studio

In/out Studio
Author: Yves Klein
Publisher: Kettler verlag
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Artists' studios
ISBN: 9783862065660

Includes around 300 images, many of which are published here for the first time.

The Writing of Art

The Writing of Art
Author: Olivier Berggruen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1906548625

Olivier Berggruen’s essays on aesthetics dissect some of the twentieth century’s greatest art.