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Author: Nuit Banai
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233337
Format: PDF, Mobi
Pages : 224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
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Yves Klein

by Nuit Banai, Yves Klein Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein books, Denounced as a charlatan and fêted as a mystic, French artist Yves Klein (1928–62) scandalized the art world with his enthusiastic embrace of postwar mass culture and his exploitation of controversial publicity tactics. Today, we know Yves Klein not only as one of the most radical artists of the postwar period, but also as an iconic role model for contemporary practices—he reinvented abstract painting, conceived new horizons for performance art, and was a trailblazer in the realm of land, body, and conceptual art. In this new critical biography, Nuit Banai examines the relationship between Klein’s brief life and his wide repertoire of artistic practices. While surveying the artist’s life, Banai establishes that Klein’s brilliance was, above all, performative, revealing that he created and inhabited myriad public identities: bourgeois, judo expert, painter, avant-garde artist, collaborator, politician, fascist, and showman, among others. With each persona, Banai shows, Klein invented new ways to communicate his paradoxical message of spiritual enlightenment and Dada iconoclasm to a rapt and unsuspecting audience. Illuminating the many facets of Klein’s influential artistic career, Yves Klein is an invaluable introduction to the inventor of the inimitable International Klein Blue.

Author: Klaus Ottmann
Publisher: Poligrafa Ediciones Sa
ISBN: 9788434312104
Format: PDF, Kindle
Pages : 159
Category : Art
Languages : en
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Yves Klein

by Klaus Ottmann, Yves Klein Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein books, Son of Fred Klein and Marie Raymond, both painters,Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm in a brief career that lasted just eight years, from 1954 to 1962. “For color! Against the line and drawing!” the motto he adopted as member of the Order of the Archers of Saint Sebastian , besides a Freudian pronouncement, it’s a true statement on the way he understood the art practice. Working in Paris during the apogee of geometric abstraction and Art Informel, in an intellectual scene dominated by existentialism, Klein was a precursor of many movements of the postwar avant-garde, including minimal art, conceptual art, and performance art. Although Klein had composed a “monotone” symphony as early as 1948 (“whose theme’ is what I wished my life to be”) his first public showing was Yves: Peintures, an artist book published on November 1954 where, parodying a traditional catalogue, he featured a series of intense monochromes linked to various cities where he had lived during the previous years. Future series displayed orange, yellow, red, and pink monochromes, but was on 1957 when he inaugurated his defining series of monochromes employing ultramarine blue of his own invention and, in the final years of his career, his body paintings, or anthropometries, recorded the body’s physical energy using his patented pigment known as International Klein Blue (IKB).Through pure color he searched for immaterial spirituality.

Author: Sidra Stich
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9783893226573
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Pages : 290
Category : Art
Languages : en
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Yves Klein

by Sidra Stich, Yves Klein Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein books, 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.

Author: Hannah Weitemeier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836553131
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 96
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
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Yves Klein

by Hannah Weitemeier, Yves Klein Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein books, That blue The artist who owned ultramarine In the mid-Fifties, Yves Klein (1928-1962) declared that "a new world calls for a new man". With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than a thousand paintings over seven years in an oeuvre now considered a mainstay of the postwar modernism. Klein made his name above all with his large, monochrome canvases in his own, patented hue of blue. International Klein Blue (IKB), composed of pure pigment and binding medium, is at once rich and luminous, evocative and decorative, and was conceived by Klein as a means of evoking the immateriality and infinitude of the world. The works of this "Blue Revolution" seem to draw us into another dimension, as if hypnotized by a perfect summer sky. A pioneer of daring painting techniques, Klein was also renowned for his deployment of "living paintbrushes", in which naked women, daubed in International Klein Blue, would make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper. Often, these Anthropom�tries were staged as elaborate performances, complete with blue cocktails or Klein's own Monotone Symphony. This Basic Art introduction presents key Klein works to introduce an artist who was at once a showman, inventor, and pioneer of performance art. With page after page of the ever-alluring International Klein Blue, it is both an essential guide to a modern art master and a meditation on the unique effects of a single color. About the series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Author: Yves Klein
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ISBN: 9781942884095
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Pages : 300
Category : Art
Languages : en
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Yves Klein

by Yves Klein, Yves Klein Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein books, With rare and unpublished color photographs, this is the new essential Yves Klein overview This major new Yves Klein overview shows how Klein transformed his life into a myth that blurred the boundary between art and biography. It includes around 300 unearthed archival photographs--many of which are published for the first time--of Klein, his works, and their production. Always an innovator, Klein spanned many mediums, boldly exploring musical composition, sculpture, performance, photography, theater, film and theoretical writing, in addition to the blue monochrome painting for which he is so famed. Reproductions of artworks are interspersed with photographs of and quotations by Klein, guiding readers through a personal history of key works such as "Leap into the Void" and the Monochrome and Feuer exhibition. Most importantly, this book offers a new look behind the scenes of his performances, uncovers the genesis of his famous Anthropometries and Fire Paintings and portrays Klein at work in his studio, in private settings and on his travels. There are also numerous contact prints with lesser-known photos and snapshots that are not among the more famous pictures released for publication. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Klein always viewed photography as a lens through which to dramatize his subjects, and chose carefully who could photograph him. The imagery in this monograph blurs the artist's work and life in a way that both maintains and deconstructs the myth of Yves Klein.

Author: Yves Klein
Publisher: Menil Collection
ISBN:
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 350
Category : Art, French
Languages : en
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Yves Klein 1928 1962

by Yves Klein, Yves Klein 1928 1962 Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein 1928 1962 books,

Author: Jean-Paul Ledeur
Publisher: Exhibitions International
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Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 331
Category : Art
Languages : en
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Yves Klein Catalogue Raisonn Des Ditions Et Sculptures

by Jean-Paul Ledeur, Yves Klein Catalogue Raisonn Des Ditions Et Sculptures Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein Catalogue Raisonn Des Ditions Et Sculptures books, Artwork by Yves Klein. Text by Pierre Restany.

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ISBN: 9783775726498
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Pages : 352
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Yves Klein With The Void Full Powers Hirshhorn Walker Art Center

by , Yves Klein With The Void Full Powers Hirshhorn Walker Art Center Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein With The Void Full Powers Hirshhorn Walker Art Center books, Catalogus van de tentoonstelling waarin een overzicht gegeven wordt van de werken van de Franse beeldend kunstenaar (1928-1962) die in zeer uiteenlopende vormen van kunst actief geweest is.

Author: Yves Klein
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780956173805
Format: PDF, Mobi
Pages : 204
Category : Art
Languages : en
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The Foundations Of Judo

by Yves Klein, The Foundations Of Judo Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Foundations Of Judo books, Presents instructions and illustrations for exercises within each of the six Katas, the movements that represent the foundation of modern judo.

Author: Hayward Gallery
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Pages : 32
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Languages : en
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Yves Klein Now

by Hayward Gallery, Yves Klein Now Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Yves Klein Now books,