{"product_id":"9783836553131","title":"Yves Klein","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThat blue\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe artist who owned ultramarine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-Fifties, \u003cb\u003eYves Klein\u003c\/b\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, producing more than a \u003cb\u003ethousand paintings over seven years\u003c\/b\u003e in an oeuvre now considered a mainstay of the postwar modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlein made his name above all with his large, monochrome canvases in his own, patented hue of blue. \u003cb\u003eInternational Klein Blue\u003c\/b\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 “Blue Revolution” seem to draw us into another dimension, as if hypnotized by a perfect summer sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pioneer of daring painting techniques, Klein was also renowned for his deployment of \u003cb\u003e“living paintbrushes”\u003c\/b\u003e, in which naked women, daubed in International Klein Blue, would make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper. Often, these \u003ci\u003eAnthropométries\u003c\/i\u003e were staged as \u003cb\u003eelaborate performances, complete with blue cocktails\u003c\/b\u003e or Klein’s own \u003ci\u003eMonotone Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Basic Art introduction presents key Klein works to introduce an artist who was at once a showman, inventor, and \u003cb\u003epioneer of performance art\u003c\/b\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 \u003cb\u003eunique effects of a single color\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the series:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEach book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e a concise biography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taschen America, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054648049904,"sku":"9783836553131","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783836553131_p0.jpg?v=1769888085","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783836553131","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}