Dimanche : 27 Novembre 1960. Numéro Unique [aka : Yves Klein présente : le dimanche, 27 novembre 1960 : Festival d'art d'avant-garde, novembre-décembre 1960 : la révolution bleue continue : le journal d'un seul jour : numéro unique] [aka : Yves Klein Presents : Sunday, 27 November 1960. The Diary of a Single Day. The Blue Revolution Continues]
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white
  • 55.5 x 38 cm
  • [4] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Dimanche : 27 Novembre 1960. Numéro Unique [aka : Yves Klein présente : le dimanche, 27 novembre 1960 : Festival d'art d'avant-garde, novembre-décembre 1960 : la révolution bleue continue : le journal d'un seul jour : numéro unique] [aka : Yves Klein Presents : Sunday, 27 November 1960. The Diary of a Single Day. The Blue Revolution Continues]

Yves Klein

Dimanche : 27 Novembre 1960. Numéro Unique [aka : Yves Klein présente : le dimanche, 27 novembre 1960 : Festival d'art d'avant-garde, novembre-décembre 1960 : la révolution bleue continue : le journal d'un seul jour : numéro unique] [aka : Yves Klein Presents : Sunday, 27 November 1960. The Diary of a Single Day. The Blue Revolution Continues]

description

As part of the theatrical presentations of the Festival of Avant-garde Art in November-December 1960, I have decided to present the ultimate form of collective theater: a dimanche for everybody. I did not wish to limit myself to an afternoon or evening performance.

On dimanche, 27 November 1960, from midnight to midnight, I thus present a full day of festival, a true spectacle of the Void, as a culminating point of my theories. However, any other day of the week could have been used.

I wish that on this day joy and wonder will reign., that no one will get stage fright, and that everyone, conscious as well as unconscious actors-spectators of this gigantesque presentation, should have a good day.

That everyone will come and go, move about, or remain still.

Everything I write in this diary today precedes the presentation of this historic day for the theater. The theater should be or at least rapidly attempt to become the pleasure of being, of living, of spending wondrous moments, and with each passing day of better understanding the beauty of each moment. Everything I write in this dairy represents my own steps towards this glorious day of realism and truth: the field of operations of my proposed conception of theater is not only the city, Paris, but also the countryside, the desert, the mountains, even the sky, and even the entire universe. Why not? I know that everything inevitably is going to work out very well for everyone, spectators, actors, stagehands, directors, et. al..

I would like to thank Mr. Jacques Polieri, the director of the Avant-garde Festival, for his enthusiasm and for proposing to me that I present this “dimanche, November 27.”

Yves Klein

references

No. 253 in "Extra Art : A Survey of Artists' Ephemera 1960 - 1999" by Steven Leiber, Ralph Rugoff, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Todd Alden, Ted Purves. San Francisco / Santa Monica, CA : California College of Arts and Crafts [CCAC] / Smart Art Press, 2001, pp. 2, 93.
"Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art" by Gwen Allen. Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom : The MIT Press, 2011, pp. 254.
"The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme : Art and the Performative in Postwar France" by Kaira M. Cabañas. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2013, pp. 158 - 159.
Paris, France: Yves Klein,
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$5,000.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light yellowing to newsprint. Flattened sheet, folded in eight with small holes at the three fold points in vertical center.
[Object # 23325]