Oral history interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo, 1977.

Biographical Note

Artist.

Scope and Contents

Art School in Sofia, Bulgaria mid-1950s; the Fluxus Group, Germany, and the Nouveaux Realistes, Paris; early work; the Valley Curtain; evolution of the Running Fence; the Reichstag project; monumentality in art; the status of art in contemporary society; artists and corporations.

Subjects

• Art, Modern--20th century.
• Artists--Interviews.
• Christo, 1935-2020--Interviews.
• Christo, Jeanne-Claude--Interviews.
• Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)