<DIV>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style=&quot;mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;This is the first complete collection of the writings of the visonary French&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;conceptual artist&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Yves Klein (1928-1962) to be published in English&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;translation. Klein was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;deeply spiritual. Inspired by his study of the Japanese Kata (the&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;abstract movements in Judo), Rosicrucian cosmogony, alchemy, and the&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;phenomenological and psychological philosophies that emerged during&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;his lifetime (particularly the writings of Gaston Bachelard), he&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;constructed his vision of a future art that would purify the soul and&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;society from the ashes of painting.&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot; /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&gt;</DIV>