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Sixteen years and counting: an ongoing art project

This resourceful book documents Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work of art, Over The River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado, in progress since 1992. It includes: preparatory drawings and collages by Christo, photographs of the 14,000 mile (22,530 kilometer) search for the river site in the Rocky Mountains, tumultuous public meetings with residents and officials in Colorado and Washington, D.C., construction tests, diagrams, technical data, and the continuing engineering and permitting processes.

This exhibition catalog is published in conjunction with the opening of the traveling exhibition, "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over The River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado, A Work in Progress," which debuts at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC in October 2008.
Over The River is planned to be enjoyed for 14 days in the summer of 2012, at the earliest. Silvery, luminous fabric panels will be suspended horizontally for 5.9 miles (9.5 kilometers), high above the water of the Arkansas River, at eight separate areas, between Salida and Canon City, Colorado.

About the artist:
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, both born on June 13, 1935, have been working in collaboration since 1961. They have lived in New York City since 1964. Their large-scale projects include Wrapped Coast, Australia, 1968–69, Valley Curtain, Grand Hogback, Rifle, Colorado, 1970–72, Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972–76, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980–83, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975–85, The Umbrellas, Japan–USA, 1984–91, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971–95, Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997–98, The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005.

About the photographer:
Wolfgang Volz has been working with Christo and Jeanne-Claude since 1971 and was project director (with Roland Specker) for Wrapped Reichstag and (with Josy Kraft) for Wrapped Trees and he was in charge of The Wall, 13,000 Oil Barrels, 1999. He is the exclusive photographer of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s works. This close collaboration has resulted in many books and more than 300 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. Wolfgang Volz and his wife and partner, Sylvia Volz, live and work in Düsseldorf, Germany.

About the contributing authors:
Jonathan Fineberg is Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia Universities and is a trustee of The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Dr. Fineberg has curated major exhibitions in the United States and abroad and published more than a dozen books and catalogs as well as over 40 articles in journals ranging from Artforum to The New York Times. His most recent books include: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to the Gates, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being and Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art. He has won numerous awards including the 1969 Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts Art Critic's Fellowship, the Dedalus Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, a Japan Foundation Senior Fellowship, and the College Art Association's Award for Distinguished Teaching in the History of Art.

Jay Gates is Director of The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Previously he was Director of the Dallas Museum of Art (1993-98) and of the Seattle Art Museum (1987-93).

Jonathan William Henery is the son of Jeanne-Claude’s sister, Joyce May Henery. In 1993, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University. He is a musician and has been Jeanne Claude’s full-time assistant since 1996.

Simon Schama is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. His many works on history and art include Landscape and Memory, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations, Rembrandts Eyes, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, and Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series, A History of Britain, and The Power of Art, an eight-part documentary for PBS Television. He is an art and cultural critic for The New Yorker.