Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers
Item #: YVKLI101 by Kerry Brougher, Philippe Vergne, Klaus Ottmann, Kaira Caba̱as, Andria Hickey Published: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Walker Art Center; May 31, 2010 Edition: First edition Language: English Hardcover 352 pages 1.2 x 8.2 x 10 inchess ISBN-10: 0935640940 ISBN-13: 978-0935640946 Condition: Very Good. A little worn and slight tan on the cover. #Fine Art Books #European Books #Color #First Edition #Out of Print #Exhibition Catalogues One of the last century's most influential artists, Yves Klein (1928���1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34. Klein 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�ۥInternational Klein Blue) and even went so far as to present white galleries emptied of all artworks for his renowned 1958 exhibition of ���the Void.� His diverse oeuvre represents a pivotal transition from modern art's concern with the material object to 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. Essays by curators Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne, Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann, art historian Kaira M. Caba̱as and curatorial fellow Andria Hickey, as well as archival materials and translations of Klein's published and unpublished writings, offer insights into the artist's endeavors and process.
