Picture a vast orange curtain hanging across a valley in Colorado.
It's not an easy thing to imagine. Christo not only imagined it but
realised it too. After two years of planning the Valley Curtain was
in place for just 28 hours before a gale warning made it necessary to
remove it. So the light-weight material of which the art work was
fabricated was not only its beauty but also its downfall. And yet
the image of it remains, in the form of this book. The book not only
documents the project from start to finish with photographs, letters
and technical drawings which reveal the entire working process, but -
best of all - includes a piece of the fabric from which the curtain
was made, bound in as an orange nylon page. And so the art work,
which lasted little more than a day, lives on.
