JOSEPH BEUYS STANDS ALMOST ALONE in post-war German art as a sculptor of major importance. Born in Kleve in 1921, he first became known in the late 1950s as the…

Dec 23, 1978 · The artist was to care for his audience, which would reciprocate by flourishing under his protection, just as Beuys, feeling the warmth of his imaginary herd, did actually …

The public myth of Joseph Beuys’ life and work, by now having achieved proportions that make any attempt to question it or to put it into historic perspective an almost impossible critical task, …

Oct 1, 2012 · Curated by Eugen Blume The first major Joseph Beuys exhibition in Moscow proposes the artist’s work as a site of inveterate turbulence, a hodgepodge of visceral …

Two years after Joseph Beuys’ death, some of the questions concerning the presentation of his work are commercial ones: how will the unsold works be marketed; how will curators, dealers,…

Jan 16, 2009 · Joseph Beuys, Akt (Nude), 1952, pencil and chlorinated iron on paper, 7 3/16 x 7". An intimate look at the beginnings of Joseph Beuys’s artistic practice, the ten works on paper …

While the location of Joseph Beuys’ thinking varies between street and study, thematically his sculpture seems to be undergoing some alarming temporal fluctuation. This recent installation, …

Oct 28, 2006 · Nancy Spector’s pairing of Joseph Beuys with Matthew Barney might have been a curatorial swan dive. In Germany, the shaman artist who created the notion of “social plastic” …

Beuys had wished to present, for the first time, a selection of drawings from his “Ulysses” cycle, Joseph Beuys verlängert im Auftrag von James Joyce den “Ulysses” um 6 weitere Kapitel …

The drawings of Joseph Beuys involve configurations of words—maps or diagrams, notations rather than pictorial concretions—which point toward a cosmological drawing on the dialectic …