The Somerville Gates collection / Geoff Hargadon. 2005.

Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009

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Jeanne-Claude, (Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon), French environmental artist (born June 13, 1935, Casablanca, Mor.—died Nov. 18, 2009, New York, N.Y.), was originally described as the publicist and business manager for her artist husband, Christo, but from 1994 she received equal billing with him in all creative and administrative aspects of their work, notably their controversial outdoor sculptures and huge temporary displays of fabrics and plastics. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jea...

Christo, 1935-

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Christo (American/Bulgarian, b.1935) is a sculptor best known for his unique wrapped works, which span from small-scale wrapped books to entire buildings and sites in nature, encased in fabric. Christo, born Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff, attended the art academy in Sofia as a youth, trained in the Socialist Realist aesthetic of the era. He moved to Prague, where he was first exposed to the work of early European modernists, and later to Paris, where he befriended a group of artists including Yv...

Hargadon, Geoff.

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