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Christo and Jeanne-Claude - On the Way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City (Paperback, New Ed)
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude - On the Way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art Series
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An exciting and richly illustrated book presenting an accessible
survey of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's career and celebrates the
long-awaited Gates project for Central Park, New York City Christo
and Jeanne-Claude are renowned for their dramatic and innovative
public projects. Their installations often feature fabric-sometimes
wrapped around existing structures or used to create large-scale
temporary environments. Some of their most influential projects
include Running Fence inSonoma and Marin Counties, California,
Surrounded Islands inMiami, the Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris,the
Wrapped Reichstag inBerlin, and The Umbrellas simultaneouslyin
Japan and California. Now New York City, where they have lived and
worked for forty years, will be the site for a much-anticipated
Christo and Jeanne-Claude project. The Gates willconsist of
saffron-colored fabric panels suspended from the horizontal tops of
over 7,500 sixteen-foot-tall vinyl gates, positioned at regular
intervals throughout 23 miles of walkways of Central Park. The
installation will be on view for sixteen days, beginning February
12, 2005 (weather permitting). This book, published in conjunction
with a major exhibition that opens in April 2004 at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrates the culmination of the
artists' vision for The Gates, a project that began in 1979. It
includes an illustrated introduction by Jonathan Fineberg that
surveys the career of Christo and Jeanne-Claude and assesses their
contribution to contemporary art and culture. The heart of the book
consists of beautiful reproductions of the various preparatory
collages and drawings that Christo has created for The Gates
project, many of which have not been previously published, and
detailed documentation of the personalities and events that have
led up to the project. This volume also features four highly
engaging, unpublished interviews conducted by Fineberg with the
artists, from the 1970s to a recent interview in July 2003.
Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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