Yves Klein. Long Live the Immaterial

n 1957 Yves Klein took out a patent on a certain blue, an intense brilliant ultramarine which he called International Klein Blue. His apparently identical monochrome paintings were made with sponges or rollers or in a series known as Antrhopometries, with what he called ‘living brushes’–models soaked in blue paint who pressed themselves against sheets of paper.

Text: Klein Yves. cm 24×30,5; pp. 264; 90 ills. COL e 117 BW ills.; paperback. Publisher: Delano Greenidge Editions, New York, 2000.

ISBN: 9780929445083 | 0929445082

ID: AM-5650

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n 1957 Yves Klein took out a patent on a certain blue, an intense brilliant ultramarine which he called International Klein Blue. His apparently identical monochrome paintings were made with sponges or rollers or in a series known as Antrhopometries, with what he called ‘living brushes’–models soaked in blue paint who pressed themselves against sheets of paper.

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