Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Aliases:
Joseph Heinrich Beuys;
Josef Beuÿs
Professions:
Sculptor;
Painter
Biography
(b
Krefeld,
12
May
1921;
d
Düsseldorf,
23
Jan
1986).
German
sculptor,
performance
artist,
printmaker
and
teacher.
He
opposed
the
concept
of
art
as
based
on
such
autonomous
genres
as
panel
painting
and
sculpture.
Instead
he
pursued
in
his
performance
art
(‘Aktionen’)
and
sculpture
an
‘expanded
concept
of
art’,
aimed
at
a
total
permeation
of
life
by
creative
acts.
By
his
provocative
and
often
misunderstood
statement
that
‘each
person
is
an
artist’,
he
did
not
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(b Krefeld, 12 May 1921; d Düsseldorf, 23 Jan 1986). German sculptor, performance artist, printmaker and teacher. He opposed the concept of art as based on such autonomous genres as panel painting and sculpture. Instead he pursued in his performance art (‘Aktionen’) and sculpture an ‘expanded concept of art’, aimed at a total permeation of life by creative acts. By his provocative and often misunderstood statement that ‘each person is an artist’, he did not mean that everyone is a painter or a sculptor. Rather, he wanted to express the idea that any person could become creatively active. This concept culminated logically in his idea of ‘social sculpture’, an art that drew upon the creative power possessed by every individual.
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Literature: Books and Other References on Beuys
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- 'The Essential Joseph Beuys'
- by Alain Borer
- 'Joseph Beuys: We Go This Way'
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- 'Joseph Beuys: Spate Druckgraphik'
- by Joseph Beuys, Franz-Joachim Verspohl
- 'Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments'
- by Mark Rosenthal
- 'Joseph Beuys: Plakate / Posters'
- by Isabel Siben
- 'Joseph Beuys: The Art of Cooking (Charta Risk, 11)'
- by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini
- 'Joseph Beuys: Sculptor of Souls : Olivestone'
- by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini
- 'James Lee Byars: Letters to Joseph Beuys'
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- 'Joseph Beuys: Diary of Seychelles (Charta Focus)'
- by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, Italo Tomassoni, Giorgio Bonomi
- 'Joseph Beuys: Mapping the Legacy'
- by Lukas Beckmann, Peter Nisbet
- 'What Is Art?: Conversations With Joseph Beuys'
- by Joseph Beuys
- 'Joseph Beuys: Early Watercolors And Drawings'
- by Werner Schade
- 'Joseph Beuys and the Celtic World: Scotland, Ireland and England 1970-85'
- by Sean Rainbird
- 'The Felt Hat: Joseph Beuys a Life Told (Charta Risk, 3)'
- by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, Joseph Beuys
- 'Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man'
- 'Joseph Beuys: Early Drawings (Schirmer''s Visual Library)'
- by Werner Schade
- 'Joseph Beuys - Block Beuys'
- by Richard Hamilton
- 'Beuys Joseph - in Basel. Bd. 1:Feuerstatte'
- by Dieter Koepplin
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