Le Pont-Neuf de Christo. Ouvrage d'art, oeuvre d'art ou comment se faire une opinion. Photographie One volume of text and

One volume of text and one volume of plates (LVI)

depuis le milieu du XVIIe siècle

Between Impressionism and Japonism

built on a rocky spur between steep-sided valleys

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Le Pont-Neuf de Christo. Ouvrage d'art, oeuvre d'art ou comment se faire une opinion. Photographie One volume of text andTo rediscover the strange effect produced by the wrapping of the Pont Neuf, we must go back in time, when Christo was still little known to the general public. In 1985, the meaning of such an unprecedented, collective, and ephemeral undertaking was far from self evident, at least for the uninitiated: were we still dealing with a work of artthe bridgeor a work of art? How could we form an opinion? And should we even take all this seriously, which