With rare and unpublished color photographs, this is the new essential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.
