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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Very light tan to page edges. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Joseph Beuys (1921-86) the 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 fame and 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 aspect of his artistic work as well as his extraordinary influence. Featured objects include a selection of Beuys’s remarkable vitrines cousins of standard museum presentations featuring both hand-made and found objects serving as containers for 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 art’s most intriguing figures. Mark Rosenthal is Adjunct Curator at The Menil Collection; Sean Rainbird is a Senior Curator at Tate; and Claudia Schunuckli formerly Assistant Curator at The Museum of Modern Art New York is an independent critic of contemporary art (MP)