Sidra Stich

Yves Klein is one of the most extraordinary and influential figures in post-war avant-garde art. In less than a decade - up until his untimely death in 1962 - he forged a career and built up a body of work that together have influenced and inspired contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists worldwide. Klein sought in his art to liberate the senses, to heighten our sensibility and to intensify our experience of life. In this comprehensive review of his art and ideas, Sidra Stich examines the full range of his diverse creative output - his paintings and sculptures, installations, meticulously documented performances, his copious writings, and his proposals and drawings for visionary projects - and sets them within the context of the art of the time to assess Klein's originality and his legacy.

Yves Klein

In this guidebook for lovers of art and architecture, lively, authoritative commentary is offered on San Francisco museums, alternative spaces, galleries, public art, architecture, design showrooms, interior renovations, urban projects, film centers, sculpture parks, bookstores, and art fairs. Maps.

The Indispensable Guide to Contemporary Art-architecture-design

Art-SITES San Francisco

"Art-SITES Spain" is a thoroughly researched, clearly written guide to Spain's art and architecture, from Madrid and Barcelona to lesser known areas with thriving art scenes. It will be an asset to both traveling art historians and casual tourists.

Contemporary Art + Architecture Handbook

Spain

University Art Museum Berkeley

Made in U.S.A. takes a new look at American art of the 1950s and 1960s and shows us how American it was. This is a provocative study of those artists who appropriated everyday images form the world of mass media and suburban living and forced their viewers into a sometimes witty, sometimes bittersweet, confrontation with the realities of living in late twentieth-century America.

Sidra Stich

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