Nouveau Realisme: Essential Monographs & Exhibition Catalogs

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  Editions Dilecta Yves Klein By Himself His Life and Thought Yves Klein (1928-1962) was an agitator of ideas, a total artist who used his considerable charisma to propagate social change through art. In his writings and talks, Klein drew on a vast repertoire of philosophical, scientific, political and occult materials, synthesizing them into a declamatory propaganda for his own art. Yves Klein by Himself is a composite biography of one of the most influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Neither an intellectual biography nor an art-historical analysis, Yves Klein by Himself is rather a kind of "Klein reader" that lets the artist speak through his ideas and philosophical conceptions, and in doing so attempts to reconstruct his "organized network of obsessions." To this end, it intermixes biographical facts, a selection of texts by the writers and artists who influenced Klein, a glossary of keywords with Klein's own definitions derived from published texts as well as previously unpublished . . . . [see book details]

  By Klaus Ottmann. Hbk, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 440 pgs. Publication Date: 6/30/2010 List Price: US $29.00

  Kettler Verlag Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-64 The monumental but temporary interventions of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, now beloved by millions across the world, began in a very different era, in late-1950s Paris, amid the antics of Yves Klein and the assemblage art of the Nouveaux Réalistes. Composed in close co-operation with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, just prior to Jeanne-Claude's death in November 2009, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-64, is the first publication in almost 40 years to deal in depth with the early work of the duo. Previously unpublished works and photographs from the artists' archives narrate the road from Christo's arrival in Paris (from his native Bulgaria) in 1958 to his and Jeanne-Claude's relocation to New York in 1964. Along with an introductory text by Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and longstanding friend of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the book contains an extensive interview with the artists and a detailed chronology for the years 1935 to 1964. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Matthias Koddenberg. Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 57 color / 50 b&w. Publication Date: 6/30/2010 List Price: US $35.00

  Kerber Daniel Spoerri: Eaten By Daniel Spoerri was a co-signatory of the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto in 1960, an early member of Fluxus and the author of the classic Anecdoted Topography of Chance, which recorded and annotated the contents of Spoerri's desk. In 1968 Spoerri also opened Restaurant Spoerri, introducing his concept of "Eat Art," which he had initiated a decade earlier, and which explored the creation, decay and "trapping" of food upon tables that were then recapitulated as assemblages. Marking the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday, Daniel Spoerri: Eaten By approaches the theme of food throughout Spoerri's oeuvre, from the early 1960s to the present. It includes the artist's replica of the Restaurant Spoerri, a survey of Spoerri's trap pictures from 1978 to 1992, and a large number of more recent assemblages and sculptures, bringing his audience fully up to date. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Dieter Ronte, Wieland Schmied, Christiane Morsbach, Enrico Pedrini. Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 66 color / 5 b&w. Publication Date: 9/30/2010 List Price: US $49.50

  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Walker Art Center Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers One of the last century's most influential artists, Yves Klein (1928–1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34. Klein was an innovator who embraced painting, sculpture, performance, photography, music, theater, film, architecture and theoretical writing. Self-identified as the painter of space,” Klein sought to achieve immaterial spirituality through pure color (primarily an ultramarine blue of his own invention—International Klein Blue) and even went so far as to present white galleries emptied of all artworks for his renowned 1958 exhibition of the Void.” His diverse oeuvre represents a pivotal transition from modern art's concern with the material object to contemporary notions of the conceptual nature of art. Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is published to accompany the first major retrospective of the artist's work in the United States . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Kerry Brougher, Philippe Vergne, Klaus Ottmann, Kaira M. Cabañas, Andria Hickey. Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 352 pgs / 120 color / 175 b&w. Publication Date: 7/31/2010 List Price: US $65.00

  Editions Dilecta Yves Klein: USA This book, produced in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, recounts the relationship between Yves Klein, one of the major artists of the postwar period, and the United States—a relationship of mutual fascination and reciprocal influence. Numerous documents, many of them previously unpublished, bear witness to the close ties that Klein forged with the U.S. The rising stars of the early 1960s American art scene (Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Frank Stella, plus Marcel Duchamp) all make an appearance here, as does President Eisenhower! The book includes an interview with Rotraut Klein-Moquay, who talks about her trip to the United States with Yves Klein in 1961, as well as the artist's comments on his own work. It also includes a hitherto unpublished essay by the American critic Robert Pincus-Witten, who met the protagonists of this story when he worked for dealer Leo Castelli. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Robert Pincus-Witten, Rotraut Klein-Moquay. Hbk, 7 x 9.75 in. / 204 pgs / 110 color / 50 b&w. Publication Date: 5/31/2010 List Price: US $32.00

  Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg Nouveau Réalisme From a party that never happened (the Cityrama II tour of Cologne planned by Wolf Vostell and Stefan Wewerka for March 2, 1962, which almost all the Nouveau Realisme artists were invited to), to a party that did (the group's festive anniversary celebration and dissolution in 1970), this comprehensive study tracks an influential movement closely. Includes detailed chronology. . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Edelbert Kàb, Matthias Koddenberg and Susanne Neuburger. Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 91 color / 71 b&w. Publication Date: 4/1/2006 List Price: US $35.00

  Kerber Arman: Works On Paper Inspired by the work of Kurt Schwitters, which he saw in Paris in 1954, Arman began experimenting with printmaking during the 1950s, and prints and other works on paper have been an essential part of his oeuvre since then. This is the first extensive retrospective and documentation of his works on paper, and as such, will be an essential publication on the artist's work. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Beate Reinfenscheid. Afterword Urs Roeber. Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 192 pgs / 114 color / 80 duotone. Publication Date: 2/2/2002 List Price: US $35.00

  Poligrafa Yves Klein: Works, Writings, Interviews The career of French artist Yves Klein lasted just eight years (from 1954 to 1962), but in that short span he took Europe by storm. Working in Paris at the height of geometric abstraction and Art Informel, in an intellectual climate dominated by Existentialism, Klein presaged many developments in the postwar avant garde: performance art, Minimalism and Conceptualism (one of his mottoes pronounced, "For color! Against the line and drawing!"). As this volume demonstrates, Klein wrote prolifically, often in the form of manifestos or more ironic texts written to accompany his proto-Conceptual installations. Though Klein is best known for a series of monochromes in his trademark shade, International Klein Blue, his first public showing was of the 1954 artist's book Yves: Peintures, which featured a series of monochromes created in response to cities where he had lived, as a play on the traditional art exhibition catalogue. The medium of the book . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Klaus Ottman. Hbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color. Publication Date: 7/31/2010 List Price: US $45.00

  Charta/Italian Factory Mimmo Rotella: Verbale N.2847 Text by Tiziano Scarpo Still vital and experimental in his late eighties, Mimmo Rotella, the Nouveau Réaliste legend who pioneered the art of effacage, in which he partially cancels images from popular magazines, here collects 30 of those works, many of them published for the first time. Satirical texts by hip Italian novelist Tiziano Scarpa, some 40 years his junior, confirm the continued relevance of Rotella's work. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Lorenzo Pavolini and Alessandro Riva. Text by Tiziano Scarpa. Paperback, 6 x 7 in. / 96 pgs / 27 color. Publication Date: 10/15/2005 List Price: US $29.95

  Charta Rotella Born in Cantanzaro in 1918, Mimmo Rotella revolutionized Italian art in the postwar period, with his ruptures of found urban materials such as advertising posters, an activity that eventually gained the name affichism,” and which allied him with the Nouveaux Réalistes in France (Arman, Christo, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri and Jean Tinguely). These early compositions were primarily abstract, but in the early 1960s he began to feature images of movie stars and consumer goods, developing a more overt critique. Simultaneously, Rotella developed a form of sound poetry that he called epistaltic” poetry. This essential volume is one of the few catalogues to document all the different phases of Mimmo Rotella's career, from the décollages of the 1950s to the large compositions he created from the 1960s through the 1980s. . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 96 pgs / 16 color / 37 b&w. Publication Date: 2/2/1997 List Price: US $29.95

  Hatje Cantz Publishers Niki De Saint Phalle This first monograph on Niki de Saint Phalle, one of the leading figures of postwar European art, is now available in a handsome paperback edition. Originally published to coincide with a major traveling exhibition of her work, it is illustrated with almost 500 images, and constitutes a thorough survey of her work. Reproductions of her most important paintings and sculptures from the years 1953 to 1992 are complemented by a photographic essay tracing her life and travels. . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Niki de Saint Phalle. Edited by Uta Grosenik. Text by Pontus Hulton. Paperback, 9.75 x 11 in. / 312 pgs / 353 color / 137 b&w. Publication Date: 3/2/1996 List Price: US $45.00

  Kerber Daniel Spoerri: Coincidence As Master With coincidence as his friend, Romanian-born artist Daniel Spoerri has spent the last half century collecting, trapping, arranging and otherwise freezing in place a vast array of common and uncommon objects. His assemblages, montages and collages tell stories, picture stories made up of objects taken from a magical life. A pioneer in the Nouveau Realisme and Fluxus movements (and author of the classic Fluxus text An Anecdoted Topography of Chance), Spoerri is an assemblage master. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Thomas Levy. Essay by Wieland Schmied. Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 152 pgs / 100 color / 15 b&w. Publication Date: 8/2/2004 List Price: US $40.00