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This book provides a definitive survey of his oeuvre in every medium - drawings and watercolours, sculptures and objects, environments and actions, multiples and printed works - revealing the multifaced creativity, formal inventiveness and wide conceptual range of an artist who has still not been adequately illuminated by previous assessments of him as sculptor, teacher and revolutionary. Beuys challenged the traditional, narrow confines of art to embrace a much broader, philosophically based political practive, formulated in the dictum Everyone is an artist. His long-term, radical aims included the introduction of direct democracy through referendum, free access to all educational institutions and a restructuring of the economy based on ecological necessity. Arranged chronologically, this overview reflects the changes in Beuys's choice of register, from the soliloquy in his early days at Cleves to dialogue during his period as a teacher in Düsseldorf to the powerful language of public lectures for an international audience in later years. His unique poetic approach to the creative process transforms such materials as felt, fat, honey, blood, wax, copper and sulphur into ever more fluent and unlimited artistic forms. In a broad-ranging discussion, Alain Borer summarizes Beuys's oeuvre, drawing out themes of extreme complexity with admirable clarity. It reveals the versatility and profundity of one of the most important and original artists of the 20th century.

Sculpture --- Painting --- Beuys, Joseph --- 7.071 BEUYS, JOSEPH --- Josph Beuys 1921-1986 (° Krefeld, Duitsland) --- Conceptuele kunst ; Fluxus ; Joseph Beuys --- Kunst en maatschappij --- Actionisme --- Intermedia ; assemblages ; installaties --- Intermedia ; Environments ; Happenings --- Kunst en politiek --- Kunsttheorie ; democratisering van kunst --- Tentoonstellingskunst --- 7.07 --- 7.038 --- Joseph Beuys --- beeldende kunst --- Duitsland --- beeldhouwkunst --- schilderkunst --- tekenkunst --- 7.071 --- Creatieve en vertolkende bezigheden in verband met kunst. Activiteiten van beroepsartiesten--BEUYS, JOSEPH --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- kunstenaars --- 7.071 BEUYS, JOSEPH Creatieve en vertolkende bezigheden in verband met kunst. Activiteiten van beroepsartiesten--BEUYS, JOSEPH --- Beuys (joseph), 1921-1986 --- Art --- drawings [visual works] --- sculpture [visual works] --- performance art --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Fluxus --- paintings [visual works]