Covered in Color av Elisa Boxer

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<B><I>Covered in Color</I></B><B> is a vibrantly illustrated picture book biography about visionary artist Christo, encouraging creativity, perseverance, and appreciating the beauty all around us.</B><BR/><BR/> Christo (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935–2009) were renowned for their large-scale, ambitious art installations that wrapped landmarks and swaths of land in fabric, including Berlin’s <I>Wrapped Reichstag</I>, Paris’s <I>The Pont Neuf Wrapped</I>, and concluding with New York City’s <I>The Gates</I> in Central Park.<BR/><BR/> This lively biography from Emmy Award–winning journalist Elisa Boxer and illustrator Susanna Chapman chronicles Christo’s humble childhood in Soviet-controlled Bulgaria—under a regime that suppressed individuality and creativity—to his international fame as a bold (and controversial) innovator in the art world. Christo discovered an early love of art and found a way to make a living out of his pas