Wrapped Coast

Environmental artwork

Wrapped Coast was a 1969 environmental artwork in which Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped a portion of Sydney's Little Bay in plastic fabric. It was funded by John Kaldor AO through Kaldor Public Art Projects.[1]

References

  1. ^ Christo; Shunk-Kender (1969). Christo: Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feat. Minneapolis: Contemporary Art Lithographers.

General references

  • Baal-Teshuva, Jacob (2001). Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-5996-4.
  • Blake, Elissa (June 1, 2020). "Christo's Wrapped Coast: how the monumental Australian work was made – and changed art history". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
  • Chernow, Burt (2002). Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Biography. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-28074-1.
  • Green, Charles (2001). "Negotiated Identity: Christo and Jeanne-Claude". The Third Hand. Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 125–137. ISBN 978-0-8166-3712-6. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctttsbj7.10.
  • Magnusson, Tony (October–November 2019). "One million square feet". Look Magazine (Art Gallery Society of New South Wales): 35.
  • Westwood, Matthew (September 2, 2019). "Dreams of Landscape Reimagined". The Australian. Retrieved June 2, 2020.


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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
  • Wrapped Coast (1969)
  • Valley Curtain (1972)
  • Running Fence (1976)
  • Surrounded Islands (1983)
  • The Pont Neuf Wrapped (1985)
  • The Umbrellas (1991)
  • Wrapped Reichstag (1995)
  • The Gates (2005)
  • The Floating Piers (2016)
  • L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (2021)
  • Over the River (unrealized)
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