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Book Joseph Beuys

Download or read book Joseph Beuys written by Claudia Mesch and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Beuys is one of the most important and controversial German artists of the late twentieth century, an artist whose persona and art is so tightly interwoven with Germany’s fascist past—Beuys was, after all, a former soldier in the Third Reich—that he has been a problematic figure for postwar and post-reunification Germany. In illuminating the centrality of trauma and the sustained investigation of the notion of art as the two defining threads in Beuys's life and art, this book offers a critical biography that deepens our understanding of his many works and their contribution. Claudia Mesch analyzes the aspects of Beuys’s works that have most offended audiences, especially the self-woven legend of redemption that many have felt was a dubious and inappropriate fantasy for a former Nazi soldier to engage. As she argues, however, Beuys’s self-mythology confronted post-traumatic life head on, foregrounding a struggle for psychic recovery. Following Beuys’s exhibitions in the 1970s, she traces how he both expanded the art world beyond the established regional centers and paved the way for future artists interested in activism-as-art. Exploring Beuys’s expansive conceptions of what art is and following him into the realms of science, politics, and spirituality, Mesch ultimately demonstrates the ways that his own myth-making acted as a positive force in the Germany’s postwar reckoning with its past.

Book What is Art

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  • Author : Joseph Beuys
  • Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
  • Release : 2012-12-10
  • ISBN : 1905570562
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book What is Art written by Joseph Beuys and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Beuys’s work continues to influence and inspire practitioners and thinkers all over the world, in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy and new money forms to new art pedagogies and ecological art practices. Here, in dialogue with Volker Harlan - a close colleague, whose own work also revolves around understandings of substance and sacrament that are central to Beuys - the deeper motivations and insights underlying ‘social sculpture’, Beuys’s expanded conception of art, are illuminated. His profound reflections, complemented with insightful essays by Volker Harlan, give a sense of the interconnectedness between all life forms, and the foundations of a path towards an ecologically sustainable future. This volume features over 40 b/w illustrations.

Book Joseph Beuys and the Artistic Education

Download or read book Joseph Beuys and the Artistic Education written by Carl-Peter Buschkühle and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines significant aspects of the art and theory of Joseph Beuys and the challenges they raise for contemporary artistic education. A model for artistic education is developed through foundational theories and a variety of examples from pedagogical practice.

Book The Essential Joseph Beuys

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  • Author : Alain Borer
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 0500092672
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Essential Joseph Beuys written by Alain Borer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the forty-year oeuvre of one of the most important and influential visual artists of the postwar era Subject to passionate controversy during his lifetime, the work of Joseph Beuys is now considered one of the most significant and influential contributions to twentieth-century fine arts. The Essential Joseph Beuys locates the artist’s oeuvre as he saw it: part of a larger, philosophically based practice emphasizing direct democracy, free access to education, and the restructuring of society to meet ecological requirements. A total of 152 works from Beuys’s many fields of activity—drawings and watercolors, prints and multiples, sculptures and objects, spaces and happenings—arranged in chronological order demonstrate the artist’s formal versatility, creative richness, and conceptual depth. The peculiar poetry of the materials Beuys used—felt, grease, honey, wax, copper, and sulfur—emerges along with the gentle melancholy that suffuses the work. Alain Borer analyzes the world of Beuys’s thoughts and imagination with special reference to the artist’s written and spoken statements. This survey is an essential introduction to the work and conceptual world of Joseph Beuys that will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century art.

Book The Fauve Landscape

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  • Author : James D.. Herbert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780857871510
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Fauve Landscape written by James D.. Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Felt

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  • Author : Chris Thompson
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0816653542
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Felt written by Chris Thompson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when nothing happens?

Book Arena

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  • Author : Joseph Beuys
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Arena written by Joseph Beuys and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joseph Beuys

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  • Author : Caroline Tisdall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Joseph Beuys written by Caroline Tisdall and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Caroline Tisdall. Artwork by Joseph Beuys.

Book The Painter s Keys

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  • Author : Robert Genn
  • Publisher : Studio Beckett Publications
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781550564792
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The Painter s Keys written by Robert Genn and published by Studio Beckett Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thinking is Form

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  • Author : Ann Temkin
  • Publisher : Philadelphia Museum (PA)
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Thinking is Form written by Ann Temkin and published by Philadelphia Museum (PA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Udstillingskatalog over den østrigske kunstner Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)

Book Beuys in America

Download or read book Beuys in America written by Joseph Beuys and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joseph Beuys  the Multiples

Download or read book Joseph Beuys the Multiples written by Joseph Beuys and published by Edition Schellmann. This book was released on 1997 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Jarg Schellmann. Essays by Dierk Stemmler, Joan Rothfuss, Jarg Schellmann and Peter Nisbet. Afterword by James Cuno and Kathy Halbreich.

Book Joseph Beuys  Drawings

Download or read book Joseph Beuys Drawings written by Joseph Beuys and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joseph Beuys

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  • Author : Joseph Beuys
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 1991-06-17
  • ISBN : 9780393307672
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book Joseph Beuys written by Joseph Beuys and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1991-06-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early watercolors of Joseph Beuys are numbered among the treasures of international public and, especially, private collections.

Book Joseph Beuys Manresa

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  • Author : Mennekes Friedhelm
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04
  • ISBN : 9788494423468
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Joseph Beuys Manresa written by Mennekes Friedhelm and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first performances by Joseph Beuys were a radical turning point for twentieth-century art. Beuys saw art as a transformative action that is both personal and communal, and his expanded artistic practice engaged spirituality, personal mythology, political structures, and symbolic materials. For Manresa, one of his legendary performance actions, which took place on December 15, 1966 in Düsseldorf, he collaborated with the Danish artists Henning Christiansen and Björn Nörgaard. In 1994 those two artists performed a new version of the piece as Manresa Hauptbahnhof. The performance was carried out in Manresa, the city that both gave the name to the original action and also was where Saint Ignatius Loyola had the revelations that led him to write his Spiritual Exercises, which Beuys considered essential reading. This book, marking the centenary of the artist's birth, presents never-before-seen materials from the two performances, including texts, images, scripts, and preparatory drawings, and contributions from scholars and critics offer further insight. Friedhelm Mennekes, an art critic and Jesuit priest, analyses the Ignatian imprint in Beuys's work while explaining its spiritual complexity, looking beyond the popular vision of the artist as shaman. Pilar Parcerisas examines Beuys's spiritual geography, explaining the importance the town of Manresa within it while also laying out the physical and mystical coordinates of Eurasia, a site that was always present in Beuys's work. While reviewing the features of Manresa, Klaus-D. Pohl also addresses the paradoxical union between Beuys's mysticism and the neo-Dadaists of Fluxus. Beuys's collaborator Björn Nörgaard recalls his time working with the German artist and reflects on the paths he opened up. Finally, art historian Harald Szeemann considers the possibility of liberating politics through spirituality.

Book A Unique Partnership

Download or read book A Unique Partnership written by Richard Demarco and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Richard Demarco's essays, writings and around 200 images celebrating the relationship between himself and German artist Joseph Beuys. It includes forewords by Keith Hartley and Douglas Hall.

Book Beuys Book

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  • Author : Klaus Staeck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9783865219145
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Beuys Book written by Klaus Staeck and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is presented here is a selection from hundreds of photos. Our respective authorship is not specific, particularly since, in individual cases, we can no longer figure out which one of us clicked the shutter"--Page [5].