Product Description: Decades before he and his late wife Jeanne-Claude were draping the Reichstag in cloth, Christo (born 1935) was creating much more modestly-sized packages in his Paris studio. These early objects, developed in the ferment of Nouveau Réalisme assemblage art alongside artists such as Arman and Jacques Villeglé, have come under scrutiny once more, as this intriguing phase in the history of the European avant garde has been increasingly revisited by art historians...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more