Joseph Beuys: The Reader

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-262-63351-2
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Mit Press

Twentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)—legendary and self-mythologizing, enigmatic and controversial—remains an important influence on artists today. Beuys embraced radically democratic artistic and political ideas, proclaiming "Everyone is an artist," and advocating direct democracy through referenda. He famously worked with such nontraditional materials as felt, fat, and plants and animals both alive and dead. Beuys and his work—performance art, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation—received perhaps the most contentious reception of any postwar artist. This reader brings together the crucial writings on Beuys and his work, presenting key essays by prominent artists and critics from North America and Europe. With a foreword by Arthur C. Danto, "Style and Salvation in the Art of Beuys," Benjamin H. D. Buchloh's now classic 1980 essay, "Beuys, Twilight of the Idol," and influential texts by Vera Frenkel, Thierry de Duve, Rosalind Krauss, Peter Bürger, Irit Rogoff, and others, Joseph Beuys: The Reader is the most significant gathering of critical texts on this challenging artist that has ever been assembled. It will be essential reading for any student of Beuys and for all those interested in postwar art, the cult of the artist, and art's engagement with politics and society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mesch, Claudia

Michely, Viola

Weitere Mitwirkende

Danto, Arthur C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Über Autor(innen)

Michely, Viola
Viola Michely is a writer and curator and teaches art and philosophy at the
August-Macke School, Bonn.

Mesch, Claudia
Claudia Mesch is Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Arizona State
University.

Claudia Mesch is Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Arizona State
University.