Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Mastaba / Over the River

By Wolfgang Volz, Christo, Jonathan Henery, et al.

This book compiles documentation for two unrealized projects by the legendary duo of Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009): "The Mastaba," a project conceived in 1977 for the United Arabic Emirates, and "Over the River," a project recently conceived for the Arkansas River. "Mastaba," Arabic for "bench," is proposed as a sculpture of approximately 410,000 horizontally stacked and variously colored oil barrels. Trees and shrubbery would be planted around the Mastaba as a windbreak against the sand and windstorms; the area adjacent to the walkways approaching the Mastaba would resemble an oasis with flowers and grass. "Over the River" consists of a succession of fabric panels to be suspended above the Arkansas River, for a period of two weeks sometime between mid-July and mid-August of any given year in the future (2013 at the earliest). Both projects are fully illustrated with preparatory drawings and photographs of the proposed locations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8434311933
• ISBN13: 9788434311930
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.8"