Christo and Jeanne Claude
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The work of the artist couple Christo 1935 2020 and Jeanne Claude 1935 2009 resists categorization It is a hybrid of art urban planning architecture and engineering but above all an aesthetic uniquely their own surreal and ethereal environmental interventions that have graced monuments public parks and centers of power alike This compact book spans the complete career of the couple who were born on the very same day met in Paris fell in love and became a creative team like no other With rich illustration it spans Christo and Jeanne Claude s earliest projects in the 1950s right through to The Floating Piers installed at Lake Iseo Italy in 2016 The book celebrates all of the couple s most famous environmental interventions such as The Gates in New York s Central Park and the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin while also featuring early drawings and family photos unknown to the wider public
