Overcoming the Problems of Art 1:a utgåva

<div><br/><p class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"> This is the first complete collection of the writings of the visonary French<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>conceptual artist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> Yves Klein (1928-1962) to be published in English<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>translation. Klein was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>deeply spiritual. Inspired by his study of the Japanese Kata (the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>abstract movements in Judo), Rosicrucian cosmogony, alchemy, and the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>phenomenological and psychological philosophies that emerged during<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>his lifetime (particularly the writings of Gaston Bachelard), he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>constructed his vision of a future art that would purify the soul and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>society from the ashes of painting.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></p></div>>