中文简介：

克里斯托（Christo，1935-2020）和让娜·克劳德（Jeanne-Claude，1935-2009）因其大规模、雄心勃勃的艺术装置而闻名，这些装置用织物包裹着地标和大片土地，包括柏林的“包裹国会大厦”、巴黎的“包裹新桥”，最后是纽约市中央公园的“门”（2005）。 这本生动的传记记录了克里斯托在苏维埃控制的保加利亚的卑微童年，在这个压制个性和创造力的政权下，到他获得艺术界大胆（和有争议）的创新者的国际名声。克里斯托很早就发现了自己对艺术的热爱，并通过包装瓶子、易拉罐、成堆的杂志，甚至是空调机，找到了靠自己的热情谋生的方法。当他遇到他的妻子让娜·克劳德时，他们作为无证移民搬到了纽约，并在生活和工作中成为平等的伙伴，他是艺术家，而她是交易商。 克里斯托和让娜·克劳德一起制作了精心设计的、视觉上令人惊叹的装置，改变了世界各地的公共空间，并且全部免费向公众开放。克里斯托从来没有解释过他为什么觉得必须用织物包裹东西，相反，他的作品颂扬个人的解释和以新的方式看到熟悉的东西的简单喜悦。尽管每件作品都是临时性的，但他们令人敬畏的设计，将自然与人工结合在一起，在之后的很长一段时间里，观众们都不会忘记。本书激励读者欣赏我们周围的美，无论多么短暂，并推动 “可能”的界限。

英文简介：

Christo (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935–2009) are renowned for their large-scale, ambitious art installations that wrapped landmarks and swaths of land in fabric, including Berlin's Wrapped Reichstag, Paris's The Pont Neuf Wrapped, and concluding with New York City's The Gates in Central Park (2005). This lively biography chronicles Christo's humble childhood in Soviet-controlled Bulgaria—under a regime that suppressed individuality and creativity—to his international fame as a bold (and controversial) innovator in the art world. Christo discovered an early love of art and found a way to make a living out of his passion by wrapping bottles, cans, stacks of magazines, and even an air conditioner. When he met his wife, Jeanne-Claude, they moved to New York City as undocumented immigrants and became equal partners in both life and work—he, the artist, and she, the dealmaker. Together, Christo and Jeanne-Claude made elaborate, visually stunning installations that transformed public spaces around the world, all free to the public. Christo never explained why he felt compelled to wrap things in fabric—rather, his work celebrated individual interpretation and the simple joy of seeing something familiar in a new way. And though each work was temporary, their awe-inspiring designs, uniting nature with the manmade, stayed with viewers long afterward. Covered in Color inspires readers to appreciate the beauty around us, however fleeting, and to push the boundaries of "possible."