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ISBN
9780500092675

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500092672
ISBN-13
9780500092675
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219293702

Product Key Features

Book Title
Essential Joseph Beuys
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Individual Artists / General, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Architecture
Author
Alain Borer
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
62.2 Oz
Item Length
12.6 in
Item Width
9.8 in

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TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
700.9/2
Synopsis
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., 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 Essential Joseph Beuys provides a definitive survey of the artist's oeuvre in every medium - drawings and watercolours, sculptures and objects, environments and actions, multiples and printed works - revealing the multifaceted creativity, formal inventiveness and wide conceptual range of an artist who has still not been adequately illuminated by previous assessments of him as a sculptor, teacher and revolutionary. Beuys challenged the traditional narrow confines of art to embrace a much broader, philosophically based political practice, formulated in the dictum 'Everyone is an artist'. His long-term, radical aims included the introduction of direct democracy through referendum, free access to all educational institutions and a restructuring of the economy based on ecological necessity. Arranged chronologically, this overview reflects the changes in Beuy's choice of register, from the soliloquy in his early days at Cleves to dialogue during his period as a teacher in Düsseldorf to the powerful language of public lectures for an international audience in later years. His unique poetic approach to the creative process transforms such materials as felt, fat, honey, blood, wax, copper and sulphur into ever more fluent and unlimited artistic forms. In a broad-ranging discussion, Alain Borer summarizes Beuy's oeuvre, drawing out themes of extreme complexity with admirable clarity and revealing the versatility and profundity of one of the most important and original artists of the 20th century.

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