American Decades
Valley Curtain
Environmental sculpture
By: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Date: 1972
Source: Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Valley Curtain. Available online at http://christojeanneclaude.net/vc.html; website home page: http://christojeanneclaude.net (accessed March 18, 2003).
About the Artists: Christo Javacheff (1935–) was born in Bulgaria and moved to the United States in 1964. Christo trained at the Fine Arts Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Vienna Fine Arts Academy in Austria. Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon (1935–) studied Latin and Philosophy at the University of Tunis. They work as a team to create works of art. They have one son, Cyril, who is a poet.
Introduction
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are primarily known for the temporary art installments they construct. Beginning...
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1970's The Arts Primary Sources
- The Bluest Eye
- "The Ladies Who Lunch"
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Dirty Harry
- Nixon and McGovern: Statements on the Arts
- Valley Curtain
- The Godfather
- The Stages of Joseph Papp
- Young Frankenstein
- Carrie
- "Born to Run"
- "Nashville"
- Isaac Bashevis Singer—Nobel Lecture
- The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Twenty Years Later
- "A Woman Speaks"
- Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party
- Einstein on the Beach
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
