Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Early Years
Matthias Koddenberg
Softcover | 14.3 x 0.99 x 22.3 cm | 96 pp
Verlag Kettler | 2020 | 9783862068029
Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and long-time friend of both Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, has edited this elaborate collection of interviews. The book is composed of many conversations held between Koddenberg and Christo in the artist's New York studio over the last few years.
With rare frankness, Christo describes how he fled from Bulgaria and made his way into the Western world. He talks about his time in Vienna and Geneva, his vibrant life in Paris that was full of hardship, and the fateful moment when he met Jeanne-Claude.
This publication provides an exceptional inside view, uniting texts and numerous archival images and photographs, many of which have never been published before, or depict early works by Christo that have only recently been rediscovered.
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Matthias Koddenberg
Softcover | 14.3 x 0.99 x 22.3 cm | 96 pp
Verlag Kettler | 2020 | 9783862068029
Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and long-time friend of both Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, has edited this elaborate collection of interviews. The book is composed of many conversations held between Koddenberg and Christo in the artist's New York studio over the last few years.
With rare frankness, Christo describes how he fled from Bulgaria and made his way into the Western world. He talks about his time in Vienna and Geneva, his vibrant life in Paris that was full of hardship, and the fateful moment when he met Jeanne-Claude.
This publication provides an exceptional inside view, uniting texts and numerous archival images and photographs, many of which have never been published before, or depict early works by Christo that have only recently been rediscovered.
