Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 1972 – 1976 Collaborate to create monumental temporary work placed in a natural setting  Only up for a couple of weeks  A continuous sheet of fabric running through the California countryside; spanned two counties: Sonoma and Marin  24 1/2 miles long and 18 feet high  took them 4 years to negotiate with 59 private ranches to get permission; also had to prepare a 450 page environmental page impact statement; they wanted the end of the fence to go into the ocean, and there was quite a bit of concern about how that would impact the local marine life  prompt the viewer to see the world with fresh eyes by transforming it in a whimsical way, if only for a few weeks

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 1972 – 1976

  • Collaborate to create monumental temporary work placed in a natural setting 
  • Only up for a couple of weeks 
  • A continuous sheet of fabric running through the California countryside; spanned two counties: Sonoma and Marin 
  • 24 1/2 miles long and 18 feet high 
  • took them 4 years to negotiate with 59 private ranches to get permission; also had to prepare a 450 page environmental page impact statement; they wanted the end of the fence to go into the ocean, and there was quite a bit of concern about how that would impact the local marine life 
  • prompt the viewer to see the world with fresh eyes by transforming it in a whimsical way, if only for a few weeks
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    Watched the documentary of the Running Fence in class last week, & I loved it.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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