CHRISTO AND JEAN - CLAUDE. AN AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY

CHRISTO AND JEAN - CLAUDE. AN AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY.

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The first fully authorised biography of the legendary installation artist and his wife. The life of Christo and Jeanne-Claude is as epic as the work that has defined the idea of installation. This biography traces not only the art, but the marriage that created it. Christo's monumental "wrappings" are familiar to anyone with even the slightest interest in modern art. 20 mile stretches of river; entire valleys; bridges; buildings; even islands: the logistics stagger and capture the imagination and grab headlines wherever they appear. In this authorised biography - the first ever written on the subject - Burt Chernow tells the story of Christo, who is, in fact, not one person but two: the artist Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude. Their romance is as epic as their work: he was a Bulgarian refugee who escaped to the West after the Hungarian uprising in 1956; she was the daughter of a French general and his scandalous wife. From the beginning, theirs was a match of love and a collaboration of talent - his for art and hers for organisation. Arriving penniless in New York in the early 1960s, their reputation and the scope of their ambitions steadily grew. Today they are two of the world's most famous living artists, the frequent subjects of documentaries and major exhibitions.

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