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Yves Klein: Out of Focus. Another Vision of Art
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Yves Klein
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Basic Art Series
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Preparati al blues: Dichiarando che “un mondo nuovo richiede un uomo nuovo”, l’artista e showman Yves Klein si è fatto conoscere con le sue grandi tele monocromatiche, l'International Klein Blue, e con i “pennelli viventi”, in cui donne nude, imbrattate di vernice, imprimevano il proprio corpo su grandi fogli di carta.
Copertina rigida, 8.3 x 10.2 in., 1.24 lb, 96 pagine
Yves Klein
20That blue
Yves Klein, the artist who owned ultramarine
In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than 1,000 paintings over seven years in an oeuvre now considered a mainstay of postwar modernism.
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.
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.
L'autore
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
Copertina rigida, 21 x 26 cm, 0.56 kg, 96 pagineISBN 978-3-8365-5313-1
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March 22 - October 25, 2026
Yves Klein and his artist family
Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands
Nata nel 1985, la serie Basic Art è diventata la collezione di libri d’arte più venduta al mondo. Ogni libro della serie Basic Art di TASCHEN contiene:
• una cronologia dettagliata riassuntiva della vita e delle opere dell’artista, inserito nel contesto storico e culturale in cui è vissuto
• una biografia concisa
• circa 100 illustrazioni con didascalie esplicative
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