Overcoming the problematics of art : the writings of Yves Klein / translated, with an introduction by Klaus Ottmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Yves, 1928-1962.

Contributor:

Ottmann, Klaus.

Klein, Yves, 1928-1962.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Klein, Yves, 1928-1962--Aesthetics.

Klein, Yves.

Klein, Yves, 1928-1962--Written works.

Klein, Yves, 1928-1962.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Putnam, Conn. : Spring Publications, 2007.

Summary:

This is the first complete collection of the writings of the visonary French conceptual artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) to be published in English translation. Klein was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet deeply spiritual. Inspired by his study of the Japanese Kata (the abstract movements in Judo), Rosicrucian cosmogony, alchemy, and the phenomenological and psychological philosophies that emerged during his lifetime (particularly the writings of Gaston Bachelard), he constructed his vision of a future art that would purify the soul and society from the ashes of painting.>

Notes:

"Originally published in 2003 as Le dépassement de la problématique de l'art et autres écrits by the École national supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Klein, Yves, 1928-1962. Dépassement de la problématique de l'art et autres écrits. English.

ISBN:

9780882145686

0882145681

OCLC:

156785002