{"id":1563,"date":"2023-07-31T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2023-07-30T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T22:11:29","slug":"covered-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/covered-in-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Covered in Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/coveredincolor-960x720.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20038\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Covered in Color: Christo and Jeanne-Claude&#8217;s Fabrics of Freedom<\/em><br \/>\nby Elisa Boxer (Author) and Susanna Chapman (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/43S5BfE\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781419756115\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Christo (1935-2020) and his partner in art and in life, Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009), are renowned for their large-scale, ambitious art installations that wrapped landmarks and swaths of land in fabric, including Berlin\u2019s <em>Wrapped Reichstag<\/em>, Paris\u2019s <em>The Pont Neuf Wrapped<\/em>, and New York City\u2019s <em>The Gates<\/em> in Central Park (2005).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/coveredincolorint.png?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20037\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covered in Color: Christo and Jeanne-Claude&#8217;s Fabrics of Freedom by Elisa Boxer (Author) and Susanna Chapman (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Christo (1935-2020) and his partner in art and in life, Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009), are renowned for their large-scale, ambitious art installations that wrapped landmarks and swaths of land in fabric, including Berlin\u2019s Wrapped Reichstag, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/covered-in-color\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Covered in Color&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-pd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1360,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/dorothy-herbert-an-ordinary-couple-and-their-extraordinary-collection-of-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":1563,"position":0},"title":"Dorothy &#038; Herbert: An Ordinary Couple and Their Extraordinary Collection of Art","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"June 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Dorothy & Herbert: An Ordinary Couple and Their Extraordinary Collection of Art by Jackie Az\u00faa Kramer (Author) and Julia Breckenreid (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: In the heart of Manhattan lived a librarian and a postal clerk who loved art so much that they collected it. 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