Joseph Beuys : mapping the legacy / edited by Gene Ray ; essays by Lukas Beckmann ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Gene, 1963-

Beckmann, Lukas, 1950-

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beuys, Joseph--Criticism and interpretation.

Beuys, Joseph.

Beuys, Joseph--Exhibitions.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

viii, 214 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Mapping the legacy

Place of Publication:

New York : D.A.P. ; Sarasota, FL : John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 2001.

Summary:

Joseph Beuys was arguably the most important figure in postwar European art. Seemingly tireless, he produced a torrent of objects, performances and pronouncements, and trained a generation of German artists. Courting controversy, he polarized the critics and claimed to have fundamentally altered the role of the artist in society. Looking both to the past and the future, his "expanded concept of art" challenged the market system with a vision integrating concepts from ecology, religion and political economy. The images he created still haunt, astonish and provoke. But what, at the end of the century, are we actually able to say about the impact of his innovations and ideas? How, if at all, is art different after Beuys? What, if anything, is his transatlantic relevance? These are the questions explored in this book by a distinguished group of artists, critics and art historians gathered at the Ringling Museum's international symposium Joseph Beuys at the End of the Twentieth Century: Mapping the Legacy. This needed evaluation has been long Overdue and in some ways has perhaps been hindered by the artist's public persona and Charismatic after-image. Because he so polarized critical opinion his initial reception tended to get stuck in an all-or-nothing approach: the man and his work were together either lionized or denigrated. The papers presented here examine the artist's various productive modes by means of different critical tools and criteria. The result is a much needed reader that will help both students and art professionals come to terms with this controversial and enormously influential artist.

Contents:

Crash course : remarks on a Beuys story / Peter Nisbet

Beuys : the profile of a successor / Pamela Kort

Joseph Beuys : echoes in America / Joan Rothfuss

Joseph Beuys and the after-Auschwitz sublime / Gene Ray

Reconsidering Joseph Beuys once again / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

The causes lie in the future / Lukas Beckmann

My relation to Joseph Beuys is overrated / Mel Chin

In the rubblefield of German history : questions to Joseph Beuys / Max Reithmann

Some neglected bequests : the inheritance of Beuys / Kim Levin

Interviews with Beuys about key experiences : September 27, 1976 / Georg Jappe ; translated and annotated by Peter Nisbet

Beuys, the twilight of the idol : preliminary notes for a critique / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.

Notes:

Published in conjuction with an exhibition and symposium held at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Dec. 4-6, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1891024035

OCLC:

48684504