Joseph Beuys
1921–1986
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Biography
Joseph Beuys (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a painter, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue.
His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.
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Joseph Beuys 7000 Oak Trees
1982
Joseph Beuys The End of the Twentieth Century
1983–5
Joseph Beuys Coyote
date not known
Joseph Beuys Felt Suit
1970
Joseph Beuys Felt Suit
1970
Joseph Beuys Fat Chair
1964–85
Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys. Fettstuhl
1984
Joseph Beuys We Won’t Do It without the Rose, Because We Can No Longer Think
1972
Artist as subject
Joseph Beuys Coyote
date not known
Joseph Beuys We Won’t Do It without the Rose, Because We Can No Longer Think
1972
Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys. Every Man is An Artist
1978
Joseph Beuys La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi
1972
Andy Warhol Portrait of Joseph Beuys
1980
Joseph Beuys Dwarf (Self-Portrait)
1965
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ARTIST ROOMS Joseph Beuys - Worcester City Art Gallery
Joseph Beuys said "Everyone is an artist"
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Unlock Art: Frank Skinner on performance art
Comedian Frank Skinner gets to grips with performance art
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Katie Guggenheim Recordings - Joseph Beuys
Working with six actors and using published interviews as scripts, artist Katie Guggenheim re-staged conversations with some of the twentieth ...
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Joseph Beuys at Tate and Whitechapel (1972)
A Film by Ken McMullen 16mm B+W Collection Ken McMullen
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Joseph Beuys - Eurasienstab, Fluxorum organum opus 39
“Eurasienstab, Fluxorum organum opus 39” a film made by Joseph Beuys and Henning Christansen with soundtrack by Hennig Christiansen, “Fluxorum ...
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Opinion: Art and Democracy
A response to Ai Weiwei's quotation on art's relation to democracy
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Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art ...
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Performance art
Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous ...
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Social sculpture
Social sculpture is a theory developed by the artist Joseph Beuys in the 1970s based on the concept that everything ...
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Environmental art
Environmental art is art that addresses social and political issues relating to the natural and urban environment
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Fluxus
Fluxus is an international avant-garde collective or network of artists and composers founded in the1960s and still continuing today
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Educational turn
A theme that emerged in the mid-1990s, educational turn refers to collaborative or research-based art where the impetus is on ...
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