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1 online resource (467 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Style and Salvation in the Art of Beuys; Editors' Introduction; I. Beuys and his 'Challengers'; 1. Breaking the Silence: Joseph Beuys on his 'Challenger', Marcel Duchamp (1995); 2. Beuys, Haacke, Broodthaers (1988); 3. Beuys and Broodthaers: Dialectics of Modernity between 'Analytic Geometry and the Belief in an Unbelieving God' (2001); 4. Letters as Works of Art: Beuys and James Lee Byars (2000, excerpt); II. Critics' Perspectives; 5. Beuys: The Twilight of the Idol (1980) |
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6. Discontinuous Notes on and after a Meeting of Critics, by One of the Artists Present (1981, excerpt)7. Joseph Beuys, or the Last of the Proletarians (1988); III. Beuys and the Limits of Iconography; 8. Beuys and Romanticism (1986, excerpt); 9. No to ... Joseph Beuys (1997); IV. Beuys, Art and Politics; 10. 'Questions? You have Questions?' Joseph Beuys' Artistic Self-Presentation in Fat Transformation Piece/Four Blackboards, 1972 (1996); 11. Every Man an Artist: Talks at Documenta V by Joseph Beuys (1972, excerpt) |
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12. Institutionalizing Social Sculpture: Beuys' Office for Direct Democracy through Referendum Installation, 1972 (1997, excerpt)13. Überblick Series on the Parliamentary Election (1983, excerpt); V. Beuys and Postmodernism; 14. Performance: Joseph Beuys (1985, excerpt); 15. In the Shadow of Joseph Beuys: Remarks on the Subject of Art and Philosophy Today (1987); 16. Letter to Jean-François Chevrier (1997, excerpt); 17. The Aesthetics of Post-History: A German Perspective (1995, excerpts); VI. Issues of Reception |
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18. The Reception of Joseph Beuys in the USA, and Some of its Cultural/Political and Artistic Assumptions (1998, excerpt)19. Joseph Beuys and the GDR: The Individual as Political (1992); 20. Joseph Beuys and Surrealism (1997); Appendix: Key Dates and Exhibitions |
| Summary |
Joseph Beuys is one of the most legendary figures of twentieth century art and his work and ideas continue to impact on artists today. An enigmatic, self-styled 'shaman', strikingly memorable in his trademark hat and jerkin, he has attained almost mythical status. This reader brings together the crucial texts on Beuys to look at the most contentious reception ever accorded a postwar artist. Here in one volume are key essays by prominent artists and critics from North America and Europe, in a collection which foregrounds the full scope of Beuys work across performance, drawing, painting, sculpt |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Beuys, Joseph -- Criticism and interpretation
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Beuys, Joseph -- Interviews
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| SUBJECT |
Beuys, Joseph. fast (OCoLC)fst00042230 |
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Art & design styles: from c 1960.
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ART -- History -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Interviews.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Michely, Viola
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| ISBN |
9780857736437 |
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0857736434 |
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