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Beuys, Joseph

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Joseph Beuys (1921& 1986)& a 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 notoriety during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. 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. This beautifully illustrated book investigates Beuys's sculpture, arguably the most fundamental portion of his artistic work, as well as his extraordinary influence. Featured objects include a stunning selection of Beuys's remarkable vitrines& sly cousins of standard museum presentations, featuring both hand-made and found objects serving as & exhibitions& on Beuys's own topics; blackboards on which he recorded his lectures and performances; room-sized environments; and many other sculptural projects that frequently served as physical documentation for Beuys's performances. 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.

Conceptual art --- Performance art --- Beuys, Joseph

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Over the past two decades, Wangechi Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant, and machine. At once seductive and threatening, her figures and environments take the viewer on journeys of material, psychological, and socio-political transformation. An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, she moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist, and sexist world views with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, Posthumanism, and Feminism. 

This presentation of Mutu's work-mounted at the Legion of Honor, a museum designed in the neoclassical style and built to showcase European art from antiquity through Impressionism-merges the histories, conventions, and traditions of her African origins and her Western education. The dazzling catalogue that will accompany this presentation will showcase Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her oeuvre as it has grown in the time since her groundbreaking exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art in 2013.

Sculpture --- feminism --- Afrofuturist --- Mutu, Wangechi