{"product_id":"yves-klein-with-the-void-full-powers","title":"Yves Klein: With the Void  Full Powers","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the last centurys most influential artists  Yves Klein (19281962) 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 inventionInternational 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 arts 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 artists work in the United States in nearly 30 years. It includes examples from all of Kleins major series  including his Anthropometries  Cosmogonies  fire paintings  planetary reliefs and blue monochromes  as well as selections of his lesser-known gold and pink monochromes  body and sponge reliefs  air architecture and immaterial works. Essays by curators Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne  Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann  art historian Kaira M. Cabaas and curatorial fellow Andria Hickey  as well as archival materials and translations of Kleins published and unpublished writings  offer insights into the artists endeavors and process. Born in Nice  France  in 1928  Yves Klein created what he considered his first artwork when he signed the sky above Nice in 1947  making his earliest attempt to capture the immaterial. The artist carved out new aesthetic and theoretical territory based on his study of the mystical sect Rosicrucianism  philosophical and poetic investigations of space and science  and the practice of Judo  which he described as the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945920983093,"sku":"ByrdShop_0935640940","price":315.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780935640946.jpg?v=1769915384","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/yves-klein-with-the-void-full-powers","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}