{"product_id":"yves-klein-9783836553131","title":"Yves Klein","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1950s, \u003cstrong\u003eYves Klein\u003c\/strong\u003e (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, \u003cstrong\u003eproducing more than 1,000 paintings over seven years\u003c\/strong\u003e in an oeuvre now considered a mainstay of postwar modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Klein made his name above all with his large monochrome canvases in his own patented hue of blue. \u003cstrong\u003eInternational Klein Blue\u003c\/strong\u003e (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 \u003cstrong\u003e\"Blue Revolution\"\u003c\/strong\u003e seem to draw us into another dimension, as if hypnotized by a perfect summer sky. Klein was also renowned for his deployment of \u003cstrong\u003e\"living brushes\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e in which naked women, daubed in International Klein Blue, would make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This Basic Art introduction presents key Klein works to introduce an artist who was at once a showman, inventor, and \u003cstrong\u003epioneer of performance art\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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\u003cstrong\u003e unique effects of a single color\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeitemeier, Hannah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Hannah Weitemeier 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.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641746297106,"sku":"9783836553131","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0cf489b-a710-4e89-a94a-ec459d5b589e.jpg?v=1733033736","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/yves-klein-9783836553131","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}