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Title
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude : remembering the Running fence / Brian O'Doherty ; with contributions by G. Wayne Clough, Edwin C. Anderson Jr., and Elizabeth Broun ; exhibition curator, George Gurney.
Author
O'Doherty, Brian
Publication
Washington, DC : Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Anderson, Edwin C., 1931-
  • Broun, Elizabeth
  • Christo, 1935-2020
  • Clough, G. Wayne
  • Gurney, George
  • Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
Description
178 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 32 cm.
Summary
"The dynamic partnership of Christo and Jeanne-Claude spans more than four decades, and their enormous outdoor art installations are known the world over ... from 1972 to 1976, Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceived, planned, and created the Running Fence, an eighteen-foot-high white nylon fence that stretched more than twenty-four miles across Marin and Sonoma counties in northern California. ... It was a landmark event in contemporary art. [book title] revisits the ephemeral splendor of this remarkable outdoor installation and celebrates the Smithsonian American Art Museum's recent acquisition of the complete documentation exhibition for Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-1976, an archive of more than 350 individual items, including fifty original preparatory works by Christo, a sixty-eight-foot-long scale model, more than 240 documentary photographs by Wolfgang Volz and Gianfranco Gorgoni, and fence materials from the original installation."--Inside cover.
Alternative Title
Remembering the Running fence
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-1976, a Documentation Exhibition, held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, April 2-September 26, 2010"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Remembrance from an observer / G. Wayne Clough -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running fence : still running / Brian O'Doherty -- Between two eternities / Edwin C. Anderson Jr. -- Creating joy and beauty / Elizabeth Broun.
ISBN
9780520266469 (cloth cover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009053128
OCLC
462906501
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library