Joseph Beuys
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Joseph Beuys in Practice and Thought
Joseph Beuys has been a recurring presence in my intellectual life for nearly two decades. Not always in the foreground, and not always comfortably. I first encountered Beuys almost by accident while on a working holiday in London in 2002. Tate Modern was hosting a major retrospective of his work and, not knowing anything about
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Problems of Method and ‘Working Through’ in Joseph Beuys
Few 20th century artists provoked as much debate around the merits of their art as Joseph Beuys. In spite of the volumes of art historical and critical work dedicated to his legacy, there remain numerous gaps in the interpretation of his work. As many have noted, these gaps exist in part due to Beuys own
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The Birds and the Bees (and Basalt and Trees) of Joseph Beuys
The Birds – Natural History in Beuys and Deleuze/Guattari Beuys’ work shows his attempts to make tangible the philosophic and political post modernism that we now identify with Deleuze and Guattari. Where the two philosophers rely on examples from natural history to work out pre- and para- political theories, Beuys attempts to work out and