Research Catalog

Title

Joseph Beuys : actions, vitrines, environments / Mark Rosenthal, with Sean Rainbird and Claudia Schmuckli.

Author

Rosenthal, Mark (Mark Lawrence)

Publication

Houston : Menil Collection ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Beuys, Joseph
• Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
• Rainbird, Sean.
• Schmuckli, Claudia.
• Tate Modern (Gallery)

Description

224 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm.

Summary

"Joseph Beuys (1921-86) - the German sculptor and performance artist - became one of the most influential figures in modern and contemporary art. His charismatic presence, extraordinary life, and unconventional artistic style (incorporating ritualized movement and sound, and materials such as fat, felt, earth, honey, blood, and even dead animals) gained him international fame and notoriety from the 1960s through the 1980s. Beuys's innovative influence is particularly felt in the field of sculpture, whose definition he expanded to encompass performance art, vitrine cases, and site-specific environments." "With a comprehensive chronology of Beuys's activities as an artist and activist, this book is essential for those interested in the life, work, and legacy of one of the art world's most intriguing figures."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Actions, vitrines, environments

Subject

• Beuys, Joseph > Exhibitions
• Conceptual art > Germany > Exhibitions
• Performance art > Germany > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition at the Menil Collection, Houston, Oct. 8, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005, and at the Tate Modern, London, Feb. 4-May 2, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-213) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Joseph Beuys : staging sculpture / Mark Rosenthal -- At the end of the twentieth century : installing after the act / Sean Rainbird -- Chronology and selected exhibition history / Claudia Schmuckli -- Bibliography.

ISBN

• 0300104960 (Yale University Press)
• 0939594587 (Menil Collection)

LCCN

^^2004108389

OCLC

56952300

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library