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Yves Klein: In/Out Studio

NO. B205

Matthias Koddenberg.

Preserved in our design reference library. Inquire to visit and use as a resource.

D.A.P./Verlag Kettler, 2016

With rare and unpublished color photographs, this is the new essential Yves Klein overview This major new Yves Klein overview shows how Klein transformed his life into a myth that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.

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Measurements: 0'8" x 0'11" ( 0.20 m x 0.28 m )
Categories: Art, Volumes
Classification: French, Modernist (20th Century)
SKU: B205

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The Long Life of a Green: On Celery, Color of the Year, and the Four Centuries of Weaving That Anticipated It

Every year, the color world makes its pronouncement, and every year the design world turns to see what it has been given. For 2027, Sherwin-Williams has named Celery; a light, airy, herbal green with a yellow undertone, chosen, in the company's words, for a moment that prizes wellness, balance, and connection. It is a soft color with a quiet glow and a faint edge; it pairs, its makers note, with white for something breezy, with cranberry red for something playful, with brown for something elevated. It is, by any measure, a beautiful and intelligent choice. It is also a color the great weavers of the world have understood for four hundred years.

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The New Luxury Is Something You Can Feel: Texture in the Modern High-End Interior

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The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation

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Christian Bérard, Jean-Michel Frank, and the Making of Nelson Rockefeller’s Most Personal Room

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Vintage Andean Frazada Kilim and the Three Thousand Years of Living Memory Held in Its Weave

The most sophisticated rooms in America are being furnished, increasingly, with an object its makers never intended to sell. The Andean frazada, a handwoven kilim produced for centuries in the high villages of Peru and Bolivia for one reason only, to survive the cold, has become one of the most quietly coveted textiles in contemporary design. Collectors who could specify anything are choosing these. The reason has nothing to do with trend, and everything to do with what a frazada actually is. To understand a frazada, you must first understand the altitude. Above four thousand meters in the Andes, higher than any peak in the contiguous United States, in air so thin that newcomers move slowly and sleep poorly for days, the cold is not a season. It is a constant. It arrives every night, regardless of the calendar, and it has arrived every night for as long as people have lived in these mountains. The frazada was the answer to that cold: a thick, dense, hand-woven wool blanket, made not for sale, not for export, not for the floors of distant apartments, but for survival. For warmth. For the bed of a family that would not otherwise make it through the dark.

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Yves Klein: In/Out Studio

NO. B205

Matthias Koddenberg.

Preserved in our design reference library. Inquire to visit and use as a resource.

D.A.P./Verlag Kettler, 2016

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Measurements: 0'8" x 0'11" ( 0.20 m x 0.28 m )
Categories: Art, Volumes
Classification: French, Modernist (20th Century)
SKU: B205

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Stories from the Volumes Collection

A Guide to Bessarabian Rugs: History, Design, and Modern Luxury

The Long Life of a Green: On Celery, Color of the Year, and the Four Centuries of Weaving That Anticipated It

The New Luxury Is Something You Can Feel: Texture in the Modern High-End Interior

The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation

Christian Bérard, Jean-Michel Frank, and the Making of Nelson Rockefeller’s Most Personal Room

Vintage Andean Frazada Kilim and the Three Thousand Years of Living Memory Held in Its Weave

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