Description: Further DetailsTitle: Joseph BeuysCondition: NewEAN: 9781780237350ISBN: 9781780237350Publisher: Reaktion BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/01/2017Item Height: 200mmItem Length: 130mmAuthor: Claudia MeschLanguage: EnglishDescription: 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 is in the harrowing context of the Second World War as it was lived by a German soldier or 'Nazi'. Nevertheless, Beuys's self-mythology confronted the post-traumatic, foregrounding his struggle for psychic recovery. Perhaps most importantly, this led to his major efforts to expand Western art, freeing artists after him to work in a thoroughly interdisciplinary way and to embrace anthropological conclusions about art and culture.Beuys's lived experience determined a consistent commitment to peaceful change and positive transformation not only through his work, but in the discussions and institutions he initiated. His notion of activism-as-art has not only become a widespread practice, but is predominant in contemporary art of the twenty-first century. Exploring Beuys's expansive conception of art and following him into the realms of science, politics and spirituality, this book, in contrast to many other accounts of Beuys's life, attributes extraordinary importance to his own myth-making as a positive force in the post-war confrontation of Germany's past.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyBook Series: Critical LivesTopic: Music Dance & Theatre, Arts & PhotographyRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Joseph Beuys
Title: Joseph Beuys
EAN: 9781780237350
ISBN: 9781780237350
Release Date: 04/01/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Critical Lives
Book Title: Joseph Beuys
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Reaktion Books, The Limited
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European, Business
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 4 Oz
Author: Claudia Mesch
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5 in
Book Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
