Joseph Beuys
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Joseph Beuys
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Claudia Mesch
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| Series | Critical Lives |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:192 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 130 |
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| Category/Genre | Art and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Performance art |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781780237350
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| Classifications | Dewey:709.2 |
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| Audience | |
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| Illustrations |
25 black and white illustrations
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Reaktion Books
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| Imprint |
Reaktion Books
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| Publication Date |
1 April 2017 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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.
Author Biography
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..". 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.)
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