Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée par le Museum Kurhaus Kleve, à Clèves (Allemagne), 19 juin au 3 octobre 2021.
" This book examines the crucial period between Joseph Beuys’ 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 now structure this book: biography as material for artistic forming; Beuys and poetry/romanticism; natural sciences: physics, chemistry, botany, zoology and geography; philosophy/anthropology Steiner; evolution; 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 catalogue, is neither to venerate a local saint of Kleve nor to topple an artist from an earlier generation. Instead it highlights the influences, ideas and caesuras that saw Beuys develop from a "sensitive traditionalist” into a "visionary social sculptor.” "
Joseph Heinrich BEUYS, Krefeld, 1921 - Düsseldorf, 1986
Göttingen, Steidl, 2022, 21 x 29,7 cm, pleine toile gris souris, 256 pages.
9783958299009/978-3-95829-900-9
BILINGUE ALLEMAND et ANGLAIS
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