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Joseph Beuys: Intuition!: Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys, 1946-1961

Joseph Beuys: Intuition!: Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys, 1946-1961

Beuys, Joseph
Kunde, Harald
Harlan, Volker

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ISBN10: 3958299008
ISBN13: 9783958299009
Publisher: Steidl
Published: Jun 28 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 3.65
Height: 0.94 Width: 8.43 Depth: 11.81
Language: English

How Beuys combined his political, scientific, spiritual and artistic concerns into a compelling vision of social sculpture

This book examines the crucial period between Joseph Beuys' (1921-86) return to his hometown of Kleve after World War II at the age of 24 and his appointment as a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1961. During this incubation phase, key themes relevant to his future work emerged, which structure this book: biography as material for artistic formation; poetry/romanticism; natural sciences: physics, chemistry, botany, zoology and geography; philosophy/anthropology and Steiner; economics, capitalism, labor, politics. The aim of this book, along with the 2021 exhibition of the same name at Museum Kurhaus Kleve for which it is the catalog, is neither to venerate a local saint of Kleve nor to topple an artist from an earlier generation. Instead it highlights the influences and ideas that saw Beuys develop from a sensitive traditionalist into a visionary social sculptor.

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