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"tombstone": "Wrapped Wool Bales: Project for Keith Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1969. Christo (American, 1935\u20132020). Collage: photograph, graphite, wax crayon, fabric, cotton, twine, staples, black crayon; overall: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund for the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1971.48. \u00a9 Christo 1969",
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"title": "Wrapped Wool Bales: Project for Keith Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1971",
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"title": "Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors",
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"title": "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works, 1958-69",
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"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, 1995-1996: Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors: November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996, no cat.",
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"description": "Christo's monumental, but temporary interventions into cityscapes and landscapes challenge habitual perception. Predictability is interrupted when a familiar building is covered in fabric, for instance, and becomes a new focus of attention. Christo's comment on the transitory nature of his projects, \"I seek the involuntary beauty of the ephemeral,\" indicates that he relishes the memory of creating a satisfying yet unrepeatable experience. Christo's projects include hanging a curtain across a valley in Colorado and wrapping the Pont-Neuf in Paris the and Reichstag in Berlin. To finance these costly undertakings, Christo makes many drawings, collages, and prints. The proceeds from these artworks are then used to fund the installations.",
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"citation": "\u201cAnnual Report for 1971.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 6 (June 1972): 147\u2013179.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 161",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152434"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cArt Museum Acquires Three Works of Art by Christo Christo & Jeanne-Claude to Give Lecture at CMA,\u201d April 24, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4038"
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"updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:02:03.295000"
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