Nouveau Realismand

Fluxusleft side

Yves Klein

Blue Monochrome

1961

Dry pigment in synthetic polymer medium on cotton

over plywood

6’ 4-7⁄8” × 4’ 7-1⁄8”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 18-01]

Niki de Saint-Phalle

Black Venus

1965–67

Painted polyester

9’ 2-1⁄4” × 2’ 11” × 2’

Whitney Museum of American ArtNew York

[Fig. 18-07]

Niki de Saint-Phalle SHE—A Cathedral

1966 Mixed-media sculptural environment 20 × 82 × 30’Moderna Museet, Stockholm (fragmentary remains) [Fig. 18-08]

Arman

Bluebeard’s Wife

1969

Mixed media in polyester resin

33 × 11-1⁄2 × 12-1⁄2”

Tate, London

[Fig. 18-09]

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Kunsthalle

1968 Bern, Switzerland Photo in collection of Christo and Jeanne-Claude [Fig. 18-14]

Piero Manzoni

Artist’s Shit90 cans

1961

Sold at the then -current price of gold

Exhibited in the Galleria Pescetto

(Albisola Marina) on August 12, 1961

View of George Maciunas and Billie Hutching’s

Fluxus Wedding

Photo by Peter Moore © Estate of Peter

Moore/Licensed by VAGA, NYC

[Fig. 18-18]

Joseph Beuys

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

1965

Performance at the Galerie

Schmela, Düsseldorf

[Fig. 18-20]