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Joseph Beuys

By: Claudia Mesch

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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.

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154

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Reaktion Books

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1780237820

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9781780237824

Judy Chicago

In the Making

By: Claudia Schmuckli,Jenni Sorkin,Janna Keegan

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Judy Chicago

In the Making

By: Claudia Schmuckli,Jenni Sorkin,Janna Keegan

Accompanying the first exhibition to offer a thorough overview of Judy Chicago's career. It traces the pioneering feminist artist's practice back to its roots, revealing her unique working process and the origins of the formal and conceptual strategies she has applied throughout her oeuvre. Bringing together a selection drawn from every major series of her work, it also reproduces sketchbooks, journals and preparatory drawings that document her extensive process of research and development.

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283

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0884011712

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9780884011712

Tony Feher

By: Claudia Schmuckli,Tony Feher,Russell Ferguson

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Tony Feher

By: Claudia Schmuckli,Tony Feher,Russell Ferguson

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Texas between October 13, 2012 and March 30, 2013.

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264

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Gregory R Miller & Company

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098268133X

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9780982681336

Joseph Beuys

Actions, Vitrines, Environments

By: Mark Lawrence Rosenthal,Mark Rosenthal,Sean Rainbird,Joseph Beuys,Claudia Schmuckli

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Joseph Beuys

Actions, Vitrines, Environments

By: Mark Lawrence Rosenthal,Mark Rosenthal,Sean Rainbird,Joseph Beuys,Claudia Schmuckli

Joseph Beuys (1921–1986)—a German sculptor and performance artist--became one of the most influential figures in modern and contemporary art. His charismatic presence, extraordinary life, and unconventional artistic style (incorporating ritualized movement and sound, and materials such as fat, felt, earth, honey, blood, and even dead animals) gained him international notoriety during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Beuys’s innovative influence is particularly felt in the field of sculpture, whose definition he expanded to encompass performance art, vitrine cases, and site-specific environments. This beautifully illustrated book investigates Beuys’s sculpture, arguably the most fundamental portion of his artistic work, as well as his extraordinary influence. Featured objects include a stunning selection of Beuys’s remarkable vitrines—sly cousins of standard museum presentations, featuring both hand-made and found objects serving as “exhibitions” on Beuys’s own topics; blackboards on which he recorded his lectures and performances; room-sized environments; and many other sculptural projects that frequently served as physical documentation for Beuys’s performances. With a comprehensive chronology of Beuys’s activities as an artist and activist, this book is essential for those interested in the life, work, and legacy of one of the art world’s most intriguing figures.

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Other Distribution

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0300104960

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9780300104967

Joseph Beuys

Actions, Vitrines, Environments

By: Mark Rosenthal,Sean Rainbird,Claudia Schmuckli

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Joseph Beuys

Actions, Vitrines, Environments

By: Mark Rosenthal,Sean Rainbird,Claudia Schmuckli

Featured objects include a selection of Beuys's remarkable vitrines, cousins of standard museum presentations, featuring both hand-made and found objects blackboards on which he jused in delivering lectures and performances; room-sized environments; and many other objects that served as physical documentation of Beuys's.

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Tate Publishing

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1854375857

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9781854375858

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