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	Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some of their famous works include the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin and of the Pont Neuf in Paris with white cloth, and "Running Fence" (1976) a 24-mile-long display of fabric strung across Marin County and Sonoma County, California reaching to the Pacific Ocean.
		In 1959 Christo's wrappings began to change; instead of covering the wrapping material with glue and sand, he left it as was.
		To wrap the trees, the couple used 55,000 square meters of silver-grey shiny polyester material and 23 kilometers of rope.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrapped_Reichstag (2555 words)

	Reichstag -> Hitler and the Reichstag Fire on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Jan., 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor without an absolute majority, the Reichstag was dissolved and new elections were set for Mar. 5; a violent election campaign ensued.
		In the sensational Reichstag fire trial of 1933, a Dutchman named Marinus van der Lubbe was charged with having set the fire as part of a Communist plot.
		For many years it was assumed outside Germany that the Reichstag fire was carried out by the Nazis themselves as a propaganda maneuver to ensure the defeat of the Communists and other leftist parties in the elections.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Reichstg_HitlerandtheReichstagFire.asp (524 words)

	Reichstag (building) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed as the place where the Reichstag, the parliament of the German Empire, would convene.
		Before reconstruction began, the Reichstag was wrapped by Bulgarian artist Christo in 1995, attracting millions of visitors.
		The reconstruction is widely regarded as a success; the Reichstag, most importantly the huge glass cupola that was erected on the roof as a gesture to the original 1894 cupola, is one of the most visited attractions in Berlin, giving an impressive view over the city, especially at night.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reichstag_(building) (1235 words)

	Reichstag - Surch
		The Reichstag was the large domed building in Berlin that was the home of the German...
		The Reichstag was built in 1894 as the Parliament building for a united Germany...
		On the 27th February the Reichstag is empty as it had been in recess since December...
	www.surch.co.uk /reichstag (422 words)

	Christo & Jeanne-Claude
		You don't understand modern art and you are not capable of coping with those things." Of course, the "Wrapped Reichstag" could have been used in that way and that was a provocative attitude, but it was like a mausoleum, it was a structure with no use.
		It's unavoidable that these projects are what they are; wrapping a bridge is like building a bridge and wrapping the Reichstag in the end will be like building a building.
		In our wrapping projects, as in the case of Rodin, everything that was wrapped had become an abstraction of the essential of the object and all the trivial and little things were hidden and the proportions of the arches, the height of the towers, singular and very visible, was very revealing.
	www.jca-online.com /christo.html (6508 words)

	JIPS / Wrapped Reichstag
		The decisive point of the dispute was the question whether the wrapped Reichstag was 'permanently' located on public highways and places.
		In the dispute here, the defendant publisher of postcards relied on the fact that the work of art 'Reichstag wrapped' had been located in a public place throughout its whole lifespan, as the work of art ceased to exist on the dismantling of the installation.
		The art project 'Reichstag wrapped' was such a presentation of limited duration, the Court held, and therefore the defendant postcard publishing company could not rely on the so-called freedom of panoramic view.
	www.jura.uni-sb.de /lawweb/pressreleases/reichstag.html (584 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Wrapped Reichstag Berlin 1971-95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1977 the "wrap" artist Christo, famous for both his wrapped Roman wall and his Running Fence in northern California, proposed to wrap Germany's Reichstag--the first of three proposals to be turned down.
		Wrapped Reichstag depicts the trials and tribulations, meetings, drawings, and conversations that led to the acceptance of Christo's plan.
		Photographs of the wrapped building from all angles at all times of day and night give the reader a clear idea of the finished work's grandeur.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/3822892688 (230 words)

	Christo&Jeanne Claude The Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The South Pacific Ocean cliff-lined shore area that was wrapped is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) long, 150 to 800 feet (46 to 244 meters)) wide, 85 feet (26 meters) high at the northern cliffs, and was at sea level at the southern sandy beach.
		On November 22, 1998, 178 trees were wrapped with 55,000 square meters (592,034 square feet) of woven polyester fabric (used every winter in Japan to protect the trees from frost and heavy snow) and 23.1 kilometers (14.35 miles) of rope.
		The branches of the Wrapped Trees pushing the translucent fabric outward created dynamic volumes of light and shadow, moving in the wind with new forms and surfaces shaped by the ropes on the fabric.
	www.the-gates-at-central-park.com /index.php?cont=some_artw (1669 words)

	Short Stories: Wrapped Town
		They had never wrapped anything in Scotland before, and in the normal run of things they would probably have turned their attention to much better advertised places.
		Theyâd wrapped deserts in California, bridges in Paris, a parliament in Berlin, a complete park of trees in Switzerland and assorted islands and gorges all over the world.
		She toed the edge of the wrapping, and watched as a thin crack scuttled across the crust.
	shortsweet.blogspot.com /2004/11/wrapped-town.html (2713 words)

	Christo's Projekt
		Christo Javacheff, ein bulgarischer Künstler, wollte seit 20 Jahren den Reichstag in silbernes Gewebe einwickeln.
		The Reichstag is a massive and craggy building near the heart of Berlin, built as the German capitol in 1894.
		In that same way, the Reichstag has become a ghost of itself, a vast ghost building in the middle of a city that, itself, has long been a ghost of what it once was.
	www.tufts.edu /~bmartin/rekha8.html (802 words)

	Architectural Review, The: Wrapping the Reichstag - project by artist Christo
		While in the '60s to wrap a telephone, still ringing but inaccessible, as an expression of the conflict between life and art was enlightening and magical, the Reichstag wrapping only reached Olympic proportions of organisation and distance.
		When Michael Cullen, the American photographer, first suggested the Reichstag to Christo as a suitable case for wrapping, in August 1971, the West German government sat in Bonn and West Berlin was a subsidised satellite shop window, not even constitutionally part of West Germany, sticking its tongue out to the east.
		The Reichstag, right up against the Berlin Wall was an embarrassment, a reminder of the failure of the Weimar Republic; Hitler's trumped-up arson charge against the communists; the reign of National Socialism; and defeat by the Allies, particularly the Soviets who planted their flag on its bombed roof in 1945.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1182_v198/ai_17406245 (1171 words)

	NGA - Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wrapped Reichstag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1971, ten years after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceived of wrapping the Reichstag, which as the former seat of a democratic German parliament had become a potent symbol of a city and country divided.
		A 200-ton steel framework was constructed to alter the proportions of the building and allow 1,076,000 square feet of aluminum-coated polypropylene fabric to cascade over the sides of the structure.
		Wrapped in the silvery material--more than double the covered surface--the building seemed to move in the wind.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2002/christo/reichstag.htm (161 words)

	birdhouse.org: Christo Announces New Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By wrapping the White House we hope to help keep terrorism under wraps, so to speak." Unlike "Wrapped Reichstag" which was a temporary project, "Wrapped White House" will be the artists' first permanent work of public art.
		Recalling the "Wrapped Reichstag," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stated, "Wrapping the symbol of German Democracy was a defining moment for the new Germany.
		Wrapping the White House will likewise be a defining moment as democracy is restored in America."
	birdhouse.org /blog/archives/2003/02/christo_announces_new_project.php (334 words)

	The Art Newspaper -- News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Six years after conquering Berlin by wrapping the Reichstag, Bulgarian-born artist Christo and his French wife, Jeanne-Claude, return to the city for two shows, one big, one small.
		At the Martin Gropius Bau there is “Wrapped Reichstag” (until 30 December), while at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) a show documents two ongoing projects: “The gates” for New York’s Central Park and “Over the river” for the Arkansas River, Colorado (until 30 December).
		“Wrapped Reichstag” shows the entire documentation of the Reichstag project with samples of fabric, sketches, models and photography.
	www.theartnewspaper.com /news/article.asp?idart=7672 (236 words)

	Konrad Weiss: Christo's Wrapped Reichstag
		The wrapping of the Reichstag my colleagues, enables us to see in another light and newly, perceptually experience this central and ambivalent place in German history.
		The Reichstag will not be desecrated by Christo's wrapping, it will be ennobled - as strange as this may sound for a house of democracy.
		The wrapping of the Reichstag will remind us of the limits of our perceptions and how uncertain our knowledge is. That is the vision: the stone of the Reichstag will be concealed from our views for a time.
	www.bln.de /k.weiss/te_wrapp.htm (574 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		In 1971 he began trying to wrap the Reichstag in Berlin, the historic seat of Germany's parliament, erected in the late 19th century.
		Finally there are several sequences from 1995 of the wrapped building, one from the air that's unfortunately accompanied by classical music—a cliched choice that Shedden avoids.
		The only explanation of the project we hear is offered by the artists in response to a question: they say that they work for themselves first, that they wrapped the Reichstag because they wanted to see it wrapped.
	www.chireader.com /movies/archives/1999/1299/991203b.html (2217 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Essays: Kolmstetter
		For the duration of the wrapping, the area around the Reichstag changed to a big magnet for tourists discussing art, the history of the building and having fun.
		The Reichstag building, a Victorian-style Renaissance Baroque hodgepodge built in 1884, was burned under Hitler's reign, partly destroyed during World War II and reconstructed in the l960s, but remained unused by German politicians.
		During the Reichstag wrapping and while the site was open to the public she served as one of the on-site Monitors, talking with the public and answering questions about the project.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/christo/kolmstetter.html (1188 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Christo & Jeanne-Claude Home
		The wrapping or surrounding of familiar objects, the curtaining off of familiar views, the intervention of fabric where one least expects it undermines our comfortable residence with the accustomed and creates a sense of dislocation.
		The wrapping of the Reichstag raised several political and historical issues, including the failed earlier attempts at a parliamentary system of government by a unified German people.
		With the dismantling of the wall and the reunification of Germany, the Wrapped Reichstag serves as a sort of tabula rasa against which many questions may be posed, not just by the German people or the European community, but indeed by the entire world.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/christo (781 words)

	Reichstag
		Reichstag: Hitler and the Reichstag Fire - Hitler and the Reichstag Fire In Jan., 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor without an...
		Reichstag: The Reichstag under the Weimar Constitution - The Reichstag under the Weimar Constitution The republican Weimar Constitution of 1919 did not...
		Reichstag: The Reichstag since World War II - The Reichstag since World War II After World War II the new constitutions (1949) of West Germany...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0841467.html (258 words)

	ART OF THE 70'S: Christo
		Wrapped Sylvette is a typical example of a preparatory drawing/collage made during the planning process for a large public project.
		Wrapped, the Reichstag had a resonance throughout the world, seeming literally to preen for the television cameras.
		We sell everything we have, from the early packages and wrapped objects of 1958 that we have in our storages, and any preparatory drawings for any project that we have available, we sell them and it pays for the expenses of one project.
	www.niagara.edu /cam/art_of_70s/Artists/christobig.html (813 words)

	Art in America: Packaging the past - The Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
		The Wrapped Reichstag was a gleaming iceberg, a schooner with billowing sails, a spaceship, a magic mountain, a waterfall, a giant mushroom, a dowager in evening dress.
		Until only six years ago, the Reichstag stood in the shadow of the Berlin Wall; on its steps, the unification of the two Germanies was officially celebrated in 1990.
		Yet the Reichstag functioned as a parliament for a mere 37 years before large sections were gutted by fire in 1933.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n11_v83/ai_17611370 (1222 words)

	Christo & Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Reichstag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After a struggle spanning through the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, the wrapping of the Reichstag was completed on June 24th, 1995 by a work force of 90 professional climbers and 120 installation workers.
		The Reichstag remained wrapped for 14 days and all materials were recycled.
		The façades, the towers and the roof were covered by 70 tailor-made fabric panels, twice as much fabric as the surface of the building.
	www.christojeanneclaude.net /wr.html (857 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bulgarians
		Nicolai Ghiaurov, Boris Christoff, Raina Kabaivanska and Ghena Dimitrova have made an invaluable contribution to opera singing with Ghiaurov and Christoff being two of the greatest bassos in the after-war period.
		The artist Christo has been the most famous representatives of the so called environmental art with projects such as the Wrapped Reichstag.
		In sports, Hristo Stoichkov was one of the best soccer players in the second half of the 20th century with his play on the national team and FC Barcelona.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bulgarians (4857 words)

	MUSEO INTERVIEW: Christo & Jeanne-Claude
		The Christos are currently dedicated to their works in progress, which range from The Gates in Centrall Park, to Wrapped Trees, a project in Switzerland and Over the River, a project for the Arkansas River in Colorado.
		There are photographs of the Wrapped Reichstag, There are preparation drawings for the Wrapped Reichstag.
		Those are about the Wrapped Reichstag, but that is not the project.
	www.duke.edu /web/museo/spring98/cj.htm (1291 words)

	This is the Umbrella project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The "Wrapped Reichstag" of Germany is a great example of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's extreme dedication to their large-scale art.
		The Reichstag is a government building in Berlin and is a symbol of democracy to the German people.
		With 292 votes in favor of Christo and 223 against, he was able to construct his dream.
	tiger.towson.edu /~bhunte1/wrapped.html (140 words)

	Reichstag Facts & Figures
		The Reichstag stands up in an open, strangely metaphysical area, related to its own changes from the late 19th century, built in 1894, burned in 1933, almost destroyed in 1945 and restored in the sixties.
		The temporary work of art WRAPPED REICHSTAG will be entirely financed by the artists, as they have done for all their projects, through the sale of preparatory studies, drawings, collages, scale models, as well as early works and original lithographs.
		The WRAPPED REICHSTAG project represents not only 23 years of efforts in the lives of the artists, but also years of team work by its leading members Michael S. Cullen, Wolfgang and Sylvia Volz, Roland Specker, creating a dialogue with people from various walks of life.
	educar.sc.usp.br /youcan/christo/berlinfacts.html (1040 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - wrapped
		The following report is from an August 1995 article in the Encarta Yearbook.
		Word Wrap, feature of word-processing computer software (Word processor) and other computer software that automatically places text within set...
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	encarta.msn.com /wrapped.html (139 words)

	Christo Contemporary Prints at Kass/Meridian
		Christo (1935 -), best known for his environmental wrappings, Christo's work revolves around the idea of "gentle disturbances" in which art is removed from the gallery setting and placed in peculiar or unthinkable places - often on a grand scale.
		To fund these projects he and his wife sell prepartory drawings and prints based on their upcoming concept.
		Ft.", a 1969 fabric covering of Little Bay in Sydney, Australia and "Wrapped Reichstag", a complete fabric covering of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in 1995.
	www.kassmeridian.com /christo (151 words)

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