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Joseph Beuys (Paperback)
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Joseph Beuys (Paperback)
Series: Critical Lives
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Discovery Miles 4 570
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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.
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