Taschen Books: Christo & Jeanne-Claude

Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known for taking drapery to an extreme. They have solidified their reputation for mastering the art of large-scale site-specific installations. Now, their impressive body of work is featured in Taschen's Christo and Jeanne-Claude book ($1000). Add this to the dream coffee table list!





"The work of the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude transcends borders, resists categorizing, and embraces contradiction. This is the only large-format book that includes all of their projects, from Christo and Jeanne-Claude's works from 1958 to urban and rural temporary works of art, such as The Gates in Central Park, the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin, and Running Fence in California. Part biography, part critical analysis, part catalogue, the book has a lively text by the critic Paul Goldberger that traces both the lives and the works of an artist couple who established a category all their own: a category somewhere between conceptual art, urban planning, architecture, politics, engineering and art."