With a radical change from painted panels to nailed objects in the 1950s, Gunther Uecker found the medium for his artistic intentions. It quickly became his trademark and made him one of the most significant artists of the era. His sense of the "vulnerability of people through people" eventually led him, in the 1980s, to create visual works and installations that touched upon ever darker and deeper existential questions. This comprehensive monograph, Twenty Chapters, presents choice works from throughout his career, from public and private collections around the world--early drawings, light media, permutations, nailed objects and kinetic work--as well as pieces from his private collection, some of which have never been exhibited.

Gunther Uecker: Twenty Chapters

Tolnay, Alexander

Herzogenrath, Wulf

Reference

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus der Schweiz

Wasmuth

The roots of an extraordinary pursuit 
Never before has a comprehensive survey been brought together to demonstrate the developments of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's early works. 
Beginning with pieces created in Paris and Europe between 1958 and 1964 -Packages, Wrapped Objects, Oil Barrels Structures, Show Cases and Store Fronts, the first proposals for Urban Temporary Objects, and Wrapped Public Buildings, 1961 - the book continues to the early 60s, a period during which Christo and Jeanne-Claude began moving their work out of the studio into open spaces to involve the general public with their art, such as the realizations of Dockside Packages, Cologne Harbor, 1961, and Wall of Oil Barrels-Iron Curtain, Rue Visconti, Paris 1961-62. 
Finally, the book features the art created after they moved to New York in 1964, including preparatory studies (drawings, collages, and scale models of proposals for urban and rural temporary works) and realizations of the first Wrapped Public Buildings, Kunsthalle Bern Wrapped, 1968, Wrapped Tower and Wrapped Fountain, Spoleto 1968, 5,600 Cubicmeter Air Package, documenta IV, Kassel 1967-68, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Wrapped, 1969. 
Early Works 1958-1969 ends with Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia 1968-69. The monumental wrapping of that coastline was only a taste of things to come in the following decades. 
**The publication of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-1969 coincides with the exhibition of 384 early works from the collections of 39 museums and 121 private collectors in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and Venezuela.

Christo & Jeanne Claude: Early Works 1958-1969

Bourdon, David

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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