The Careful Crafting of a Utopia: Yves Klein and the Anthropometric Event of March 9, 1960 (thesis)

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Bartlett, Sarah M.
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Washington and Lee University -- Honors in Art History
Klein, Yves, 1928-1962
Utopias in art
Happenings (Art)
Performance art
France--Paris
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Thesis; [FULL-TEXT FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE] Sarah M. Bartlett is a member of the Class of 2016 of Washington and Lee University. . . . I have attempted to examine the Anthropometric event using a larger analytical framework -- I have looked back to the artist's earlier works, placed the performance within its socio-historical context, and prioritized Klein's vision for the event. After reading and analyzing much of the artist's immense written work, I became increasingly interested in the link between biography and Klein's Rosicrucian beliefs, the intellectual and philosophical atmosphere of post-war France, and the apparent dissimilarity between the anthropometric performance in March of 1960 and Klein's other performative events. [From Introduction] Sarah M. Bartlett