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Joseph Beuys
Claudia Mesch
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Description for Joseph Beuys
Paperback. A new critical biography of Joseph Beuys, arguably the most important and controversial German artist of the late twentieth century. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, 25 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; ACXJ; AFKP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130. .
Joseph Beuys is arguably the most important and most controversial German artist of the late twentieth century, not least because his persona is interwoven with Germany's fascist past. This book illuminates two defining threads in Beuys's life and art: the centrality of trauma, and his sustained investigation of the very notion of art itself. In addition to the materials of fat and felt that Beuys used widely in his oeuvre, numerous Beuys artworks are autobiogra-ph-ical in content. His self-woven legend of rescue and redemption still strikes many as a highly inappropriate fantasy, or even an outright lie, located as it ... Read more
Joseph Beuys is arguably the most important and most controversial German artist of the late twentieth century, not least because his persona is interwoven with Germany's fascist past. This book illuminates two defining threads in Beuys's life and art: the centrality of trauma, and his sustained investigation of the very notion of art itself. In addition to the materials of fat and felt that Beuys used widely in his oeuvre, numerous Beuys artworks are autobiogra-ph-ical in content. His self-woven legend of rescue and redemption still strikes many as a highly inappropriate fantasy, or even an outright lie, located as it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Critical Lives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237350
SKU
V9781780237350
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About Claudia Mesch
Claudia Mesch is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University. Her books include Modern Art at the Berlin Wall (2009) and Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change since 1945 (2013). She is a founding editor of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Reviews for Joseph Beuys
..". presents an informative discourse of Beuysian work and 21st century art by addressing issues such as how the current practice of established codes of meaning and iconography fit Beuys' model. In doing so, this reader successfully meets its main aim, which was to reopen an 'international discussion on Joseph Beuys and his work.'" contemporary (U.K.)