The early watercolors of Joseph Beuys are numbered among the treasures of international public and, especially, private collections. Color illustrations throughout

Joseph Beuys: Early Watercolors (Schirmer's Visual Library)

Arts & Photography

Beuys, Joseph

Individual Artists

W.W.Norton&Company

Published to accompany a traveling exhibition.

Joseph Beuys, Drawings: City Art Gallery, Leeds, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria & Albert Pubns

Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s in the work of artists such as Bernd &amp; Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman, to its rise to art-world prominence in the work of the artists of the late 70s and early 80s including Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman. Intended as a major genealogy of the rise of a still-powerful and evolving photographic practice by artists, the checklist will include a wide array of works examining a range of issues: performativity and photographic practice; portraiture and cultural identity; the formal and social architectonics of the built environment; societal and individual interventions in the landscape; photography's relationship to sculpture and painting; the visual mediation of meaning in popular culture; and the poetic and conceptual investigation of visual non-sequiturs, disjunctions and humorous absurdities. Bringing together a newly commissioned body of scholarship with reprints of important historical texts, The Last Picture Show seeks to define the legacy that has produced a rich body of photographic practice in the art world today.

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982 (WALKER ART CENT)

WEISS, David

Graham, Dan

Baldessari, John

Dibbets, Jan

Nauman, Bruce

Flood, Richard

Anselmo, Giovanni

Gronnert, Stefan

Lee, Pamela

Batchen, Geoffrey

Fischli, Peter

Bochner, Mel

Charlesworth, Sarah

Export, Valie

Acconci, Vito

Ader, Bas Jan

Boltanski, Christian

Broodthaers, Marcel

Kruger, Barbara

Oppenheim, Dennis

Lewitt, Sol

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Walker Art Center

Edited by Carin Kuoni. Introduction by Kim Levin.

Energy Plan for the Western Man: Joseph Beuys in America : Writings by and Interviews With the Artist

Thunder's Mouth Pr

Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Cy Twombly: September 10-October 1, 1988

Hirschl & Adler Modern

Joseph Beuys

Dia Art Foundation

Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man By Joseph Beuys. Edited by Carin Kuoni. "A tasty collection of hitherto uncollected/unpublished writings by and about the legendary German artist." -FlashArt illustrated ISBN: 1-56858-007-X

Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man

History & Criticism

Basic Books

Joseph Beuys's work continues to influence and inspire practitioners and thinkers all over the world, in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy and new money forms to new art pedagogies and ecological art practices. Here, in dialogue with Volker Harlan - a close colleague, whose own work also revolves around understandings of substance and sacrament that are central to Beuys - the deeper motivations and insights underlying 'social sculpture', Beuys's expanded conception of art, are illuminated. His profound reflections, complemented with insightful essays by Volker Harlan, give a sense of the interconnectedness between all life forms, and the foundations of a path towards an ecologically sustainable future.

What Is Art?: Conversations With Joseph Beuys

Rudolf Steiner Pr

Joseph Beuys, in a letter to Manfred Schradi, October 21, 1971: “I know that from him [Rudolf Steiner] a mission was given to me to gradually remove people’s alienation and mistrust toward the supersensible through my means. In political thinking―the field I have to be working on daily―it is a matter of realizing the Threefold Social Order as quickly as possible.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Joseph Beuys’s work continues to influence and inspire artists and thinkers around the world―in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy, and new forms of money, to new methods of art education and the practice of “ecological art.” Volker Harlan―a close colleague of Beuys―whose own work also explores substance and sacrament―talked with Beuys about the deeper motivations and insights behind “social sculpture” and his expanded view of art. These profound reflections, complemented by Harlan’s thoughtful essays, give a sense of the interconnected nature of all life forms and provide the basis for a path toward a future that is ecologically sustainable. Features more than forty illustrations.

What Is Art?: Conversations with Joseph Beuys

Harlan, Volker

Clairview Books

The world of finance exerts a huge influence over our lives, being responsible for economic turmoil and seemingly interminable peaks and crashes. Whereas money was once a simple means of exchange, today it is a commodity in itself and, as “capital,” exerts power over individuals, degrading work to tradable labor. Can we find a new way of understanding money today, so that we can begin to overcome its destructive aspects? In November 1984, a remarkable discussion took place at the Meeting House in Ulm, Germany. It featured the radical artist Joseph Beuys, two professors (of financial sciences and political economics) and a banker. Beuys would seem to be out of place among such heavyweight academics, professionals, and authors, but rather than feeling intimidated by his fellow panelists, Beuys―also a social and political activist―demonstrates his groundbreaking thinking on the subject and his ability to introduce fresh perspectives. Here for the first time is a record of this discussion, as well as analysis by Ulrich Rösch, which will be of equal interest to artists, economists and spiritual seekers.

What Is Money?: A Discussion with J. Philipp von Bethmann, H. Binswanger, W. Ehrlicher, and R. Willert

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