Yves Klein USA, Robert Pincus-Witten

This book, prepared in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, tells the story for the first time of the intense relationship between Yves Klein (1928-1962) and America: fascination, reciprocal influences, successful and unsuccessful encounters, exchanges, travel. Numerous archive documents (photos, correspondence, etc.), often unpublished, testify to the links Yves Klein forged with the United States in four major stages (Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Paris). Throughout the pages, we meet some of the great figures of the American art scene: Leo Castelli, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Virginia Dwan, Ed Kienholz...

This exceptional album opens with an interview with Rotraut Klein-Moquay, who recalls her trip with Yves Klein to the United States in 1961, followed by a chronology of Yves Klein's work. It also includes a previously unpublished essay by American art historian Robert Pincus-Witten, who knew the protagonists of this story personally. Essential from the point of view of twentieth-century art history, this book also provides several archive documents in their entirety, such as the text of the Chelsea Hotel Manifesto.

Éditions Dilecta, 2009
Text in French
Hard cover
17 x 24 cm
208 pages
0.8 kg
ISBN : 9782916275598