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In Case Something Different Happens in the Future: Joseph Beuys and 9/11.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strauss
- Series:
- dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts ; 72
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--History.
- Art.
- Capital movements.
- Globalization.
- Terrorism.
- Art History.
- Genre:
- Tracts (Ephemera)
- Pamphlets.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Hatje Cantz, 2012.
- [Place of publication not identified], Hatje Cantz, 2012.
- Summary:
- "In the year 1974, the United States of America was in crisis. We had lost an ill-conceived and disastrously mismanaged war in Vietnam and were about to withdraw in defeat. Following the Yom Kippur War, the Arab oil-producing states initiated an embargo on oil shipments to the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan, in retaliation for their support of Israel, and this triggered an energy crisis in most of the industrialized world. Economic growth in the U.S. slowed to near zero. In August of 1974, Richard Nixon would become the first U.S. president to resign in disgrace, and his successor Gerald Ford promptly pardoned him of all crimes committed while in office. This is the time Joseph Beuys chose to make his first visit to the United States. Since 1970, he had been increasingly extending his theories of sculpture into the social realm, calling this new work "Social Sculpture." Rather than mounting a conventional exhibition in the U.S., he decided instead to arrange a series of lectures and discussions-in New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis-under the collective title "Energy Plan for the Western Man." He arrived in New York from Düsseldorf on January 9, 1974. When he flew back into New York from Minneapolis on January 19, he performed a therapeutic operation on a striking new feature of the New York City skyline. The World Trade Center had been completed only months before Beuys' arrival in New York. It was the world's largest commercial complex, including seven buildings and a shopping concourse, built at a cost of $750 million. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth, it was capped off with two 110-story skyscrapers, the Twin Towers, which dwarfed every other building in New York (including the Empire State Building) and rose up out of Lower Manhattan like severed legs. The towers immediately stood for (symbolized) globalized capital and American dominance in the world market; they were the symbolic pillars of the New World Order..."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description based on online resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 2026-05-11).
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