Yves Kline Bibliography

Yves Kline Bibliography
Catalogues:
Yves Peintures. Editions Lacoste, Paris. October 15, 1955. Text by Yves Klein.
Yves: Propositions monochromes. Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris. February 21-March 7,
1956. Text "La Minute de Verite." by Pierre Restany.
Yves Klein: Proposte monocrome, epoche blu. Gallerie Apollinaire, Milan. January 2-12,
1957.Text, "Le'Epocha blu, il secondo minuto della verita." by Pierre Restany.
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1957. Text, "An Act of Truth." by Pierre Restany.
Yves Klein le monochrome. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris. October 11-November 13, 1960.
Essay; "Monochromie et vitalisme," by Pierre Restany. Text by Werner Ruhnau.
Yves Klein: Monochrome und Feuer. Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld. January 14-February
26, 1961. Preface by Paul Wember.
Yves Klein le monochrome. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. April 11-29, 1961. Statements
by Yves Klein, Pierre Restany and Paul Wember.
Yves Klein le monochrome, il nuovo realismo del colore. Galleria Apollinaire, Milan;
opening November 21, 1961. Texts by Guido Le Noci and Yves Klein. Essay by
Pierre Restany.
Retrospective Yves Klein. Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo. July 23-31, 1962. Texts by Claude Pascal,
Takachiyo Uemura, Yukiko Katsura, Yoshiaki Tono and Shinichi Segi.
Yves Klein. Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York. November 5-24, 1962. Text; "Due to the
Fact That." by Yves Klein in collaboration with Neil Levine and John Archambault.
Yves Klein le monochrome, peintures de feu. Galerie Tarica, Paris. April 30-May 20, 1963.
Texts by Andre Verdet and Pierre Restany.
Yves Klein. Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm. May 1963. Text by Yves Klein.
Yves Klein le monochrome, empreintes. Galerie Bonnier, Lausanne. March-April 1964.
Texts by Pierre Restany and Ulf Linde.
Peintures de feu. Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf. April 15-May 20, 1964. Texts by Otto Piene
and Pierre Restany.
Yves Klein. Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris. opening April 12, 1965. Texts by Yves Klein and
Pierre Restany.
Yves Klein. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. October 22-December13, 1965. Texts by
Pierre Restany.
Yves Klein (Inner and Outer Space, an Exhibition Concerning Universal Art. Moderne
Museet, Stockholm. December 26, 1965-February 13, 1966. Texts by Ulf Linde,
Pierre Restany and Yves Klein.
Yves Klein. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. March 3-April 3, 1966. Texts by Yves Klein,
Pierre Restany and Francios Mathey.
Yves Klein,peintures de feu. Galerie Bonnier, Lausanne. Summer 1966. Texts by Yves
Klein and Pierre Restany.
Yves Klein. The Jewish Museum, New York. January 25- March 12, 1967. Texts by
Kynaston McShine, Pierre Decargues, Pierre Restany and Yves Klein.
Trois Artistes de l'ecole de Nice: Arman, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse. Musees de Nice,
Galerie des Ponchettes. December 1967-February 1968. Texts by Jacques
Medecin, Herve de Fontmichel, Jacques Lepage, Alain Jouffroy, Pierre Restany and Otto
Hahn.
Yves Klein, Louisiana. Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark. February 17- March 17,
1968. Texts by Pierre Descargues, Knud W. Jensen, Pierre Restany and Yves
Klein.
Monochrome Propositions of Yves Klein. Gallery One, London, June
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Yves Klein in Nurnberg. Institut fur Moderne Kunst, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg. April 2-May
12, 1968. Texts by Dietrich Mahlow, Paul Wember, and Yves Klein.
Yves Klein, 1928-1962. Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. January 25-March 11, 1969.
Texts by Pierre Restany, Paul Wember and Yves Klein.
Le Monochrome. Galerie Blu, Milan. November 1969. Texts by Pierre Restany and Dino
Buzzati.
Yves Klein. Galerie d'Arte Martano, Turin. November-December 1969. Texts by Yves
Klein, Pierre Restany and Paul Wember.
Yves Klein. Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin. December 2-31, 1970. Edited by Aldo
Passoni. Texts by Yves Klein.
Yves Klein. Kustverein, Hanover. June 9-July 25, 1971. Texts by Carlo Huber, Manfred de
la Motte, Paul Wember, Werner Ruhnau, Yves Klein, Claude Pascal, and Andre
Verdet.
Yves Klein. Kunsthalle, Berne. August 4-29, 1971. Texts by Carlo Huber, Manfred de la
Motte, Paul Wember, Werner Ruhnau, Yves Klein, Claude Pascal and Andre
Verdet.
Marie Raymond-Yves Klein. Chateau-Musee de Cagnes-sur-Mer. December 16, 1972February 17, 1973. Texts by Pierre Sauvaigo, Yves Klein, Pierre Restany, Michel
Gaudet and Charles Estienne.
Yves Klein. Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris. February 3-March 14, 1973. Texts by Yves Klein.
Yves Klein. Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Zurich. March 30-May 5, 1973.
Texts by Yves
Klein.
Yves Klein. Gimpel Fils, London. May 30-June 23, 1973. Texts by Yves Klein.
Yves Klein. Stadtische Kunstammlungen, Ludwigshafen. March 20-April 28, 1974. Texts
by Andre Verdet, Manfred Fath and Yves Klein.
Yves Klein 1928-62, Selected Writings. The Tate Gallery, London. March 20-May 15, 1974.
Forward by Norman Reid. Preface by Michael Compton. Introduction and
annotated chronology by Jacques Caumont and Jennifer Gough-Cooper. Text by
Yves Klein.
Yves Klein. Nationalgalerie and Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin. June 4-July12, 1976.
and Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf. July 20-August 28, 1976. Forward by
Jurgen Harten, Lucie Schauer and Dieter Honisch. Edited with commentary by
Angela Schneider and Hannah Weitemeier. Text by Yves Klein.
Yves Klein. Fujii Television Gallery. Tokyo. October 19, 1979. Text in Japanese.
Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990. Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary
Art. June 15 - August 12, 1990. Text by Melissa E. Feldman.
The Physical World: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. New York: Gagosian
Gallery: 2002. Washburne-Harris, Jessie & Donald Kennison.
Articles:
Allain, Bernadette. "Propositions monochromes du peintre Yves." Coleurs 15 (1956)
Alloway, Lawrence. "Spectrum of Monochrome." Arts 45 (December 1970)
Bass, R. "Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Exhibition." Art News (November 1986): 131.
Buchloh, B.H.D. "The Primary Colors for the Second Time: A Paradign Repetition of the
Neo-avant-garde." il Por (Summer 1986): 45-52.
Buzzati, Dino. "Blu Blu Blu" Corriere d'Informazione (Milan) January 1957.
de Duve, T. "Rolling in Riches." Cimaise (September/October 1988): 72-75.
Hayt-Atkins, Elizabeth. "Gagosian Gallery Exhibition." Art News (March 1990): 178-180.
Huelsenback, Richard. "Der Tod eines Malers" Frankfurter Allgemeine, July 27, 1962.
Hulten, K.G. Pontus. "Pariskonst och Jiujitsu" Stockholm-Tidningen, October 30,1957.
Hunt, Ronald. "Yves Klein: Fragments from a Conversation with Rotraut Klein." Ictceric
(Newcastle-on-Tyne) 1 (January 1967)
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———. "Yves Klein". Artforum 5 (January 1967)
James, Kenneth. "Private Dealers." Connoisseur (August 1991): 111-112.
Janis, Sidney, and Jooffroy, Alain. Correspondence. L'Oeil, no. 155 (November 1967)
Jones, Alan. "Sidney Janis." Galleries Magazine (December 1986-January 1987): 90-97,
126.
Jouffroy, Alain. "Le Grand Jeu de la Biennale" L'Oeil no. 139-40 (July-August)
———. "L'Absolu d'Yves Klein." XXe Siecle 41 (December 1973)
Judd, Donald. "Yves Klein." Arts 37 (January 1963) Review of Yves Klein's show at Iolas
Gallery.
Levine, Bernard. "The Kleins of D'Arvlay Street." The Spectator, July, 1957.
Levy, M. "The Shaman is a Gifted Artist (Shamanism in the work of Yves Klein, Joseph
Beuys, Mary Beth Edelson, Karen Findley)." High Perform (Fall 1988): 54-61.
Liotta, Christine. "Who Framed Modern Art or The Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit."
Tema Celeste (May/June 1991): 90.
Lippard, Lucy R. "The Silent Art." Art in America (January-February 1967)
Melikian, Souren. "Pop Art: Resurrecting an Old Joke." International Herald Tribune
(September 14-15, 1991): 7.Selected Periodical Literature:
Melville, Robert. "Exhibitions." Architectural Review 122 September 1957)
Parent, Claude, with Jouffroy, Alain. "L'utopie architecturale, condition de survie." XXe
Siecle 48 (June 1977)
Restany, Pierre. "Yves Klein, le jaillissment du futur." Arts Special Edition (June-July 1955)
———. "Die Beseelung des Objektes." das Kunstwerk 15 (1961-1962)
———. "Le Nouveau Realsime und was darunterzu verstehen ist." Das Kuntswerk 18
(January 1963)
———. "Le Nouveau Realisme und was darunter zu verstehen ist." (January 1963)
———. "New Realism." Art in America 51 (February 1963)
———. "L'avventura di Yves Klein." Domus428 (July 1965)
Rivers, Larry. "Blues for Yves Klein." Art News 65 (fenruary 1967)
Rose, Barbara. "The Resurrection of Abstract Art in Europe." The Journal of Art
(September 1991): 23.
Rubinstein, M. R. "Europa resurgents: objects and activities of the Nouveau Realists." Arts
Magazine (Summer 1988): 68-75.
Simon, Sidney. "Yves Klein." Art International 11 (October 1967)
Thwaites, John Anthony. " A Turning-Point: Notes on Norbert Kricke
and Yves 'le
monochrome." Art International 2 ( September-October 1958)
———. "Yves le monochrome...The Carreer of Yves Klein." Art & Artists (July 1974)
"Voyage through the Void." Time, January 1961.
Von Graevenitz, Antje. "The Art of Alchemy." New Art New York: Rizzoli, 1991: 95-102.
color repro: Requiem Blue (Re 20); Re 40
Watt, Alexander. "Nouveaux Realistes." Art in America 49 (1961)
Wember, Paul. "Yves Klein." Art Internatioanl 5 (March 1961)
———. "Review." Artnews (September 1993), p. 170.
———. "Compassion." World Tour (July/September 1993, vol. 3 no. 2), p. 52. color repro:
Fire F67, 1962.
———."Yves Klein at Gagosian." Art in America (October 1993), p. 137. black and white
repro: Fire F27 I, 1961.
Bonami, Francesco. "Review." Flash Art (October 1993), pg. 85. black and white repro:
Fire, FC 1, 1961.
Books:
Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977.
Becker, Jugen, and Vostell, Wolf. Happenings, Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme.
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Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Paperback, 1965.
Brett, Guy. Kinetic Art. New York: Reinhold book Corporation,1968.
Burnham, Jack. Beyond Moden Sculpture. New York, 1968.
Celant, Germano, ed. Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art. Turin: Galleria Civic d"Arte
Moderna,1970.
Gottleib, Carla. Beyond Modern Art New York: E.P. Dutton, 1976.
Groham, Will, ed. Kunst unserer Zeit: MalereiUnd Plastik. Cologne, 1966.
Henri, Adrian. Total Art: Environments, happenings, and Performance. New York, Oxford
University Press, 1974.
Janis, Harriet, and Blesh, Rudi. Collage, Personalities, Concepts, Techniques. Philadelphia
and New York: The Chilton Company, 1962.
Krahmer, Catherine. Der Fall Yves Klein: Zur Krise der Kunst. Munich: R. Piper and Co.
Verlag, 1974.
Kultermann, Udo. Dynamische Architektur. Munich, 1959.
———. Neue Dimensionen der Plastik. Tubingen,1967.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Late Modern: The Visual Arts since 1945. New York: Praeger, 1969.
———. Art Now.: From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealism. New York: William
Morrow, 1977.
Martano, Giuliano. Yves Klein: Il Mistero Ostenstato. Turin: Martano Editore, 1970.
Restany, Pierre. Yves Klein le monochrome. Paris: Libraire Hachette, 1974.
———. Les Nouveaux Realistes. Paris: Plante, 1968.
Rosenthal (piene), Nan. The Blue World of Yves Klein. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard
University, 1976.
Tono, Yoshiaki. Passport No. 328309. Tokyo, 1962.
Wember, Paul. Yves Klein: Catalogue raisonne Monographie zur Keitgenossischen Kunst
Institut fur Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg. Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg,
1969.
———. Malerei in unserem Jahrhundert. Krefeld, 1963.
Published Writings by Yves Klein:
"Des bases (fausses) principes, etc....et condamnation de l'evolution.", Soulevement de la
jeaunesse, (Paris), no. 1 (June 1952)
Yves Peintures, Preface by Pacsal Claud, Madrid: Fernando Franco de Sarabia, 1954
Haguenault Peintures, Preface by Pascal Claude, Madrid: Fernando Franco de Sarabia,
1954
Les Fondements du Judo, Preface by Ichiro Abe, Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset, 1954
"Propositions monochromes du peintre Yves", Interview with Bernadette Allain, Couleurs
(Paris), 15 (1956): 25-27
"Meine Stellung im Kampf zwischen Linie und Farbe", ZERO, (Dusseldorf) 1 (April 1958):
reprinted as "Ma Position dans le combat entre la ligne et la couleur", in Otto Piene
and Heinz Mack, eds., Zero, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1973
Reply to an inquiry made by ARTS magazine. Arts (Paris), May 14, 1958
Le Depassement de la problematique de l'art, La Louviere, Belgium: Editions de Montbliart,
1959
Contains:
"Le Depassement de la problematique de l'art"
"Preparation et presentation de l'exposition du 28 Avril 1958"
"Discours prononce apres le vernissage de l'epoque pneumatique"
"Esquisse du manifeste technique de la revolution bleue"
"Esquisse et grandes lignes du systeme economique de la revolution bleue"
"Discours prononce a l'occasion de l'exposition de l'exposition Tinguely a
Dusseldorf (Janvier 1959)
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"Exemple de collaboration realisee, evolution generale de l'art actuel vers
l'immaterialisation" (with Werner Ruhnau)
"Ma Systematique d'evolution"
"Yves Klein (dit le monochrome)"
"Histoire Personelle"
"N.B."
"Creation d'un Centre de la sensibilite"
Dimanche, le journal d'un seul jour, Paris: Festival d'art d'Avant-garde, November 27,
1960, printed by Combat et Presse de France
Contains:
Page 1: "Le Theatre du vide"
"Actualite"
"Un homme dans l'espace"
"Le peintre de l'espace se jette dans le vide"
"Sensibilite pure"
Page 2: "Capture du vide"
"Les Voleurs d'idees"
"Du vertige au prestige (1957-1959)
"Viens avec moi dans le vide"
"Projet pour un institut national theatral"
"Le contrat"
"Ballet de feu"
Page 3: "Stupefaction monochrome"
"Les cinq Salles"
"La guerre (petite mythologie personelle de la monochrome datant le
1954, adaptable en film ou en ballet"
Page 4: "Projet de ballet sur aspect de fugue et choral"
"La statue"
"La marque de l'immediat"
"Renversement"
"Programme du festival d'art d'Avant-Garde"
"My Monochrome attempt has conducted me...", From the catalogue of the exhibition
Yves Klein le monochrome, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; April 11-29, 1961
"Le vrai devient realite", ZERO 3, (July 1961)
In collaboration with Werner Ruhnau, "Projekt einer Luft-Architektur", Zero 3, (July 1961)
"Yves Klein et le Globe terrestre Bleu!", From the catalogue of the exhibition
Antagonismes 2: L'Objet, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris;
opening March 7, 1962
"La Climatisation de l'atmosphere", ibid.
With Claude Pascal, Pierre Rastany, and Armand Fernandez, "Store-Poeme", ibid.
In collaboration with Neil Levine and John Archambault, "Due to the Fact That", From the
catalogue of the exhibtion Yves Klein, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York;
November 5-24, 1962
"Le Realisme authentique d'aujord'hui", KWY, (Paris) 11 (Spring 1963). A journal
published by Lourdes Castro, Christo Javacheff, Jan Voss and Rene Bertholo.
This issue edited by Christo Javacheff.
"Pour Satisfaire la sensualite..." From the catalogue of the exhibtion Arman, (cat. no.
365), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, September 22-November 2, 1964
"Extraits de 'Journal' ('Rien n'est bleu...')". From the catalogue
of the exhibition Yves Klein. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; March 3-April 3, 1966
"Extraits d'une conversation avec P. Restany ('Moi, je suis jaloux...'). ibid.
Extracts from "The Monochrome Adventure", Edited by Marcelin Pleynet. Translated by
Lane Dunlop. From the catalogue of the exhibition Yves Klein, The Jewish
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Museum, New York, January 25-March 12, 1967.
Receipt for a zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, December 8, 1959, ibid.
Invitation card for Klein's marriage to Rotraut Uecker on January 21, 1962, ibid.
"Symphonie--'Monoton Silence'", ibid.
"Quelques extraits de mon journal en 1957", Art et Creation, (January-February 1968)
"L'Aventure monochrome", Ibid. The selection differs in several respects from the Jewish
Museum text.
Receipt for a zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, November 18, 1959, made out to
Peppino Pality (recto and verso). In the catalogue of the exhibition Le
Monochrome. Galleria Blu,
Milan; November 1969
"Lorsque je serai...", From the catalogue of the exhibition Yves Klein,. Galleria d'arte
Martano, Turin; November-December 1969
"Humilite..."In Martano, Giuliano, Yves Klein: Il Mistero
Ostentato, Turin: Martano
Editore, 1970 Cartoon, "Malevich...", Ibid.
Postcard, "Ma Chere Maman...Il n'y a que le grand art qui compte", ibid.
"I Pennelli umani", "(Les Pinceaux vivants"). ibid.
"Yves il monocromo naturometria" ("Yves le monochrome naturometries"). ibid.
"Le Spugne" ("Les Eponges"). Ibid.
"Ma devide, pour la couleur! Contre la ligne et le dessin!" (motto written for the occasion of
Klein's introduction into the order of Saint Sebastian). Ibid.
"Solution de 58 au probleme de socle..." Ibid.
"Il fuoco, ou l'avenir sans oublier le passe (1961)". Ibid.
Dimanche, le journal d'un seul jour, Ibid. A facsimile on glossy stock included in a pocket in
the back cover.
"On est en train de creer quelquechose..." Translated into German by Manfred de la Motte.
From the catalogue of the exhibition Yves Klein. Kunstverein, Hanover, June 19July 25, 1971
"Extrait d'une conference en Sorbonne 1959", From the catalogue of the exhibition Yves
Klein. Galerie Karl Finker, Paris, 1973.
Yves Klein 1928-1962: Selected Writings, London: The Tate Gallery, 1974, brief textual
extracts and photographs of documents.
Conferences a la Sorbonne, 3 Juin 1959 (two longplaying records), Paris, RPM, n.d.
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