The work of the artists **Christo and Jeanne-Claude **transcends borders, resists categorizing, and embraces contradiction. **This is the only large-format book that includes all of their projects**, from Christo and Jeanne-Claude's works from 1958 to urban and rural temporary works of art, such as _The Gates _in Central Park, the _Wrapped Reichstag _in Berlin, and _Running Fence _in California. Part biography, part critical analysis, part catalogue, the book has a lively** text by the critic Paul Goldberger **that traces both the lives and the works of an artist couple who established a category all their own: a category somewhere between conceptual art, urban planning, architecture, politics, engineering and art.

**This volume gives **a detailed overview of the life and work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, from early drawings and family photos to plans for future projects**.** It features hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, drawings and plans for realized works, an incisive and detailed history spanning the entire oeuvre, and in-depth interviews, **in a lavish edition designed by Christo himself**. In addition to a thorough photographic documentation of all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work, the book includes the transcript of a conversation between the artists and Paul Goldberger, the last conversation about her work that Jeanne-Claude had before her death in late 2009\\. This book is an eloquent homage to Jeanne-Claude, and a celebration of the work of two artists whose imagination has affected the landscape of every continent.

**Limited edition of 100 copies, with the b/w photograph_Wrapped Reichstag_, signed and numbered by Christo, Jeanne-Claude, Wolfgang Volz and Jacob Baal-Teshuva.**