Yves Klein
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20That blue
Yves Klein, the artist who owned ultramarine
Klein made his name above all with his large monochrome canvases in his own patented hue of blue. International Klein Blue (IKB), composed of pure pigment and binding medium, is at once rich and luminous, evocative and decorative, and was conceived by Klein as a means of evoking the immateriality and infinitude of the world. The works of this “Blue Revolution” seem to draw us into another dimension, as if hypnotized by a perfect summer sky. Klein was also renowned for his deployment of “living brushes,” in which naked women, daubed in International Klein Blue, would make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper.
This Basic Art introduction presents key Klein works to introduce an artist who was at once a showman, inventor, and pioneer of performance art. With page after page of the ever-alluring International Klein Blue, it is both an essential guide to a modern art master and a meditation on the unique effects of a single color.
The author
Hannah Weitemeier (1942–2013) was a German art historian and writer. In the 1980s she worked as a curator in West Berlin. Her special interest was the Düsseldorf-based group of artists, ZERO, whose art was influenced by the monochrome works of Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, and Lucio Fontana.
Yves Klein
Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.56 kg, 96 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-5311-7
Edition: SpanishISBN 978-3-8365-5312-4
Edition: FrenchISBN 978-3-8365-5313-1
Edition: EnglishBorn back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
• a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
• a concise biography
• approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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