{"id":6253,"date":"2010-01-10T04:43:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T11:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=6253"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:41:04","slug":"featured-christo-and-jeanne-claudes-surrounded-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-christo-and-jeanne-claudes-surrounded-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED : Christo and Jeanne-Claude&#8217;s &#8220;Surrounded Islands&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">The installation &#8220;Surrounded Islands&#8221;<\/span> was completed on May 7, 1983 in Biscayne Bay, between the city of Miami, North Miami, the Village of Miami Shores and Miami Beach.\u00a0 11 of the islands situated in the area of Bakers Haulover Cut, Broad Causeway, 79th Street Causeway, Julia Tuttle Causeway, and Venetian Causeway were surrounded with 585,000 square meters (6.5 million square feet) of pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water, floating and extending out 61 meters (200 feet) from each island into the Bay. The fabric was sewn into 79 patterns to follow the contours of the 11 islands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6255\" title=\"p1050532\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050532-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"p1050532\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050532-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050532.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Hard bound in gray cloth binding in publishers pictoral slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. 696 pages. Introduction &amp; picture commentary by David Bourdon. Profusely illustrated with full-page plates, Contains bound in fabric sample. Sunning to spine edge, otherwise fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 19048<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6258\" title=\"p1050534\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050534-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"p1050534\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050534-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050534.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Christo: Surrounded Islands<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nChristo\u00a0 and Jeanne-Claude<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Abrams<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1986<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> Very Good<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> No Dust Jacket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The installation &#8220;Surrounded Islands&#8221; was completed on May 7, 1983 in Biscayne Bay, between the city of Miami, North Miami, the Village of Miami Shores and Miami Beach.\u00a0 11 of the islands situated in the area of Bakers Haulover Cut, Broad Causeway, 79th Street Causeway, Julia Tuttle Causeway, and Venetian Causeway were surrounded with 585,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15130,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}