Javacheff, Christo Vladimirov; Denat de Guillebon, Jeanne-Claude [Christo and Jeanne-Claude.]; Bourdon, David; Volz, Wolfgang

WRAPPED REICHSTAG, BERLIN, 1971–1995 [Signed]

Cologne: Taschen, 1996. Hors de Commerce Edition, #228/700. Quarto, 700 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus slip case. Book held in Good plus publisher branded cardboard box. Slip case bound in paper with silver metallic fabric. Light shelf wear to case, small areas of bumping, chipping, and staining. Book bound in metallic silver fabric with blue lettering on spine. Light scratching on back board. Slight bumping to head and tail of spine. Text block sunken from spine. Includes piece of fabric from original art piece, bound into back board. Signed and numbered by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on tipped in page. Shelved --.

1410891

Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $1,000

NOTES

Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a pair of artists who designed, coordinated, and funded large-scale environmental art installations. Active since the 1960s, Reichstag Wrapped in 1995 was one of their crowning achievements. Christo described the piece, their physical wrapping in the Reichstag building in a fabric made of aluminum-coated propylene, as autobiographical. He related the wrapping to the reunification of Berlin and the importance of that act to Eastern Europeans. The wrapping of the Reichstag building also represented the return of Berlin to center of the art and political world. (Chicago Tribune, 1986)