Joseph Beuys: Life and Works

by Götz Adriani

Very Good Paperback Barrons Educational Series Inc, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Clean tight copy with unopened pages. Illustrated throughout with Beuys artwork. Light shelfwear to covers, with reading creases to spine. .

Genres: Art

312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1979

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

What the title says. Because it is presented in strict chronlogical order, the book lends special emphasis to his project creating a free college for art in Europe. The task was incomplete as of this book's publication in 1979, when Beuys was given a retrospective at the Guggenheim museum. However, in 1978, the courts overturned the decision that Beuys had been justly fired from his professorship at the Academy for the offense of declaring that he would allow any rejected student to attend his class. In his later years, Beuys made it clear that creating a true democracy was the aim of his practice, using art as the means to demonstrate a system for it. Naturally, nothing is mentioned after 1979.