Joseph Beuys
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Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdal
Offset poster for Beuys's 1974 US lecture-series "Energy Plan for the Western Man", Ronald Feldman Gallery
Table with Accumulator Beuys Tate Modern AR00603
Joseph Beuys on his lecture "Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler – Auf dem Weg zur Freiheitsgestalt des sozialen Organismus" photographed by Rainer Rappmann [de] in Achberg, Germany, 1978
Beuys Felt TV performance by Lothar Wolleh
I Like America and America Likes Me was an artistic action staged by German avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys in May 1974, during which he spent three consecutive days confined in a gallery enclosure wi
Joseph Beuys
…complexity of creative areas." Further examples of such performances include: Eurasienstab (1967), Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch) Scottish Symphony (1970), and I Like America and America Likes Me (1974). The Chief was first performed in Copenhagen in 1963 and in Berlin in 1964. Beuys positioned himself on the gallery floor wrapped entirely in a…
I Like America and America Likes Me