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Want you to look at Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Unwrapped "This story by Nicole Plett was published in U.S. 1 Newspaper on February 19, 1997." Two artists, Christo, and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, who was his manager until they decided that they were really both artists working together. Nice story. And a name in art you should know.

"After years of masquerading as one artist (him) and one manager (her), the couple "came out" three years ago as two artists, and have corrected the attribution of all their works.

"Why did this take so long? 'That was how we wanted it then,' replies Jeanne-Claude. 'We were not as old and wise as we are today. We didn't have the guts to tell the truth. Then it was hard enough for one Bulgarian refugee artist to be accepted in New York, two artists would have been harder.' "

Jeanne's Lectures for Spring 2005

• Fall 2004 Lectures in Chronological Order
• Winter Break 2005 Lectures in Chronological Order
• Spring 2005 Lectures in Chronological Order

• Suggested titles for discussion group, so they'll come up in the archive search, which I am the first to admit I don't fully understand. But anyway, on Michael Jackson's case and the train wreck could we try:

  • See Message 2887 of tranform_dom.
  • Juries and celebrity - Subtopic. (like Michael Jackson or train wreck) Sort name of poster (like Jristen)
  • Juries and mental competence - Subtopic. (like Michael Jackson or train wreck) Short name of poster - (like Jason)
  • Juries and college education - Subtopic. (like Michael Jackson or train wreck) Short name of poster (like Taneisha)

Visual Sociology:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Unwrapped

• "Christo and Jeanne-Claude call themselves environmental artists; artists who use both the rural and the urban environment to create temporary works of art. In place for just 14 days, their works are soon dismantled, their vast quantities of materials are recycled, and the land restored to its original condition.

  "We make temporary works of art of joy and beauty," says Jeanne-Claude exuberantly, in an interview from the couple's home office in New York. "We do them for our own pleasure and the pleasure of our collaborators." The artists do not take commissions or accept sponsorships of any kind.

  "We accept no volunteers. Everyone who works with us (except my mother) is paid," she continues. "We wish to work in total freedom," says Christo. "To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone."

  "We work with no strings attached," says Jeanne-Claude, enjoying the irony of the completed thought. The "Wrapped Reichstag's" rich silvery fabric was secured with 51,181 feet of blue polypropylene rope.

  If you look closely at an art history survey text you may find Christo's earliest works from 1958, the year he arrived in Paris. His "Wrapped Bottle" and "Wrapped Can" are exactly that -- small everyday objects rendered disquieting and mysterious by the act of wrapping and tying them up.

  Although the monumental works that followed have been known for decades by the singular name Christo, the art has been a collaboration since 1961. That was the year Christo and Jeanne-Claude made their first temporary work, "Dockside Packages," in Cologne, Germany.

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