Christo and Jeanne-Claude (Taschen Basic Art Series) - Softcover

"Nobody discusses a painting before it has been painted. Our projects are discussed and argued about, pro and con, before they are realized." - Christo"

Christo and Jeanne-Claude (both b. June 13, 1935) have worked in collaboration since 1961, and lived in New York City since 1964. Their many large-scale projects include The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85, The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95, Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997-98 and The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005. Wolfgang Volz has worked with Christo and Jeanne-Claude as the exclusive photographer of their works since 1971. He was also project director (with Roland Specker) for Wrapped Reichstag and (with Josy Kraft) for Wrapped Trees, and was in charge of The Wall, 13,000 Oil Barrels, 1999. His close collaboration has resulted in many books and more than 300 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He lives and works in Dusseldorf and Stockholm. Paul Goldberger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the "Sky Line" column, and the author of several books, most recently Up From Zero (2004). He lectures widely on architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and has taught at both Yale School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.