Joseph Beuys
Title | Joseph Beuys PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Mesch |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 2017-04-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1780237820 |
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.
What is Art?
Title | What is Art? PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Beuys |
Publisher | CLAIRVIEW BOOKS |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2012-12-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1905570562 |
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.
Joseph Beuys
Title | Joseph Beuys PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Lawrence Rosenthal |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Conceptual art |
ISBN |
Joseph Beuys and the Artistic Education
Title | Joseph Beuys and the Artistic Education PDF eBook |
Author | Carl-Peter Buschkühle |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2020-03-23 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9004424555 |
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.
The Essential Joseph Beuys
Title | The Essential Joseph Beuys PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Borer |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0500092672 |
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.
The Fauve Landscape
Title | The Fauve Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | James D.. Herbert |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780857871510 |
Arena
Title | Arena PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Beuys |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |