Christo & Post-Modern Art

Modernism and postmodernism are forces that have been in competition but that are also part of a flow in the same direction, a flow of artistic movement yearning toward change within a technological age. Modernism was part of an effort to create a new environment to replace the old around the turn of the century, following in the wake of similar changes in political, social, literary, and other spheres of society. The application of these ideas to public space in particular shows some of the important dynamics at work in the movement the term describes, and such efforts were used to extend the meaning of public spaces directly to society as a whole, attempting to alter the way we think of ourselves in relation to our external, public environment in keeping with the other changes taking place in human thought and attitude. Postmodernity was a reaction to modernity as modernity was a reaction to what went before, but again a new way of v

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Christo arrived in Paris and produced and packaged his work Wrapped Objects. He continued working on a number of projects in Europe for the next several years before establishing a permanent residence in New York in 1964 (Vaizey 18). From 1958 to the present, Christo has produced works of art which are massive, delicate, beautiful, and vast. Vaizey describes these pieces well when she writes, They are huge pieces which paradoxically appear delicate, evanescent, and even though made of the materials of the technological age--plastics and metals--with an enormous input of creative and intuitive engineering on the part of the artist and the professionals who work with him, are exquisite, apparently inevitable interventions in the "real" world (Vaizey 7). These pieces have been created and "placed" in cities from Chicago to Milan and Paris, in the countryside and in communities from California, New England, Florida, and Japan. The works of Christo also show the artist taking risks. They are often political statements, but they also require considerable political activity on the part of the artist before they can even be created. Since these pieces require the participation of cities, states, countries, and various governmental
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