Yves Klein

A first edition "newspaper" by Yves Klein, produced for the Festival d'Art d'Avant-Garde in Paris.

• Yves Klein (French).
• Paris: Self-Published, 1960.
• Includes black-and-white photographs printed in offset.
• Newspaper was displayed on newsstands for one day.

The previous month, Klein hired photographers Harry Shunk and Jean Kender to photograph him recreating a jump from a second-floor window that he claimed to have executed successfully earlier that year. A group of Klein's judo friends were positioned below the window, holding a stretched tarpaulin to catch him as he fell. The final image, a photomontage composed of two frames removing the tarpaulin, is printed with the headline "Un homme dans l'espace!" and a caption reading "Le peintre de l'espace se jette dans le vide" ("A man in space! The painter of space throws himself into the void.") Elsewhere in the publication, contents include color theory, immateriality and judo material.