Joseph Beuys

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JOSEPH BEUYS: EVERY MAN IS AN ARTIST
Text by Antonio d'Avossa, Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Rainner Rappmann.
SILVANA EDITORIALE
ISBN: 9788836624010 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2013
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JOSEPH BEUYS: SCULPTURE AND DRAWING
Edited by Kristine Bell, Greg Lulay, Alexandra Whitney. Text by Alexandra Whitney, Mark Rosenthal.
ZWIRNER & WIRTH
ISBN: 9780977356867 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2008
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JOSEPH BEUYS: IN THE MU MOK COLLECTION
Text by Wolfgang Dreschsler, Doris Leutgeb.
VERLAG FUR MODERNE KUNST NURNBERG
ISBN: 9783938821725 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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JOSEPH BEUYS: THE MULTIPLES
EDITION SCHELLMANN
ISBN: 9783888142109 | US $95.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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RODIN & BEUYS
RICHTER VERLAG
ISBN: 9783937572345 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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JOSEPH BEUYS: DRAWINGS BASED ON THE CODICES MADRID BY DA VINCI
Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Contributions by Martin Kemp. Text by Ann Temkin, Cornelia Lauf.
DIA ART FOUNDATION
ISBN: 9780944521342 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 5/2/1999
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JOSEPH BEUYS: WE GO THIS WAY
By Caroline Tisdall. Artwork by Joseph Beuys.
VIOLETTE EDITIONS
ISBN: 9781900828130 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2000
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JOSEPH BEUYS: DIARY OF SEYCHELLES
Artwork by Joseph Beuys.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881580897 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 9/2/1996
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JOSEPH BEUYS: THE ART OF COOKING
Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Text by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881581665 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 11/2/1999
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JOSEPH BEUYS: MULTIPLES
Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Edited by Jàrg Schellmann.
EDITION SCHELLMANN
ISBN: 9780935640571 | US $85.00
Pub Date: 4/2/1999
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JOSEPH BEUYS: ARENA
Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Text by Pamela Kort, Christopher Phillips.
DIA ART FOUNDATION
ISBN: 9780944521298 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 3/2/1994
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JOSEPH BEUYS: DOCUMENTA WORK
By Caroline Tisdall. Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Contributions by Rainer Rappmann. Text by Veit Loers.
CANTZ
ISBN: 9783893225804 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 9/2/1993
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JOSEPH BEUYS: DIE AKTIONEN
Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Contributions by Uwe Schneede.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775704502 | US $125.00
Pub Date: 10/2/1993
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Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys: Every Man Is an Artist

Posters, Multiples and Videos

Text by Antonio d'Avossa, Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Rainner Rappmann.
Published by Silvana Editoriale

Every Man Is an Artist investigates Joseph Beuys’ (1921–1986) voluminous output of multiples. For Beuys, multiples were a vehicle for communication, discussion and debate--a means for disseminating his philosophy beyond a collector audience and putting broader progressive ideas into circulation. From 1965 to 1985, Beuys produced almost 600 multiples in a variety of media, many of which incorporated felt (his signature material), and including graphic works, found objects, photographs, audiotapes and films. While other artists focused on creating games or do-it-yourself performances, Beuys’ pieces generally function as didactic tokens of a larger spiritual agenda, such as a set of wooden boxes in which people may store their thoughts. With a wealth of reproductions (120 in color), this volume offers a concise overview of Beuys’ politicization of aesthetics and the distribution of art.

Joseph Beuys: Sculpture and Drawing

Edited by Kristine Bell, Greg Lulay, Alexandra Whitney. Text by Alexandra Whitney, Mark Rosenthal.
Published by Zwirner & Wirth

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) is widely considered one of the most important German artists of the twentieth century. His innovative experiments with materials and genres radically expanded the possibilities of art-making, thus influencing successive generations of artists. Beuys' practice was multi-faceted, incorporating drawings, installations, performances and even political activism into a unique body of work which promoted a mutable, new kind of art that encouraged individual and social transformation. The works in this exhibition catalogue, which include more than a dozen drawings and six sculptures made between 1953 and 1984, exemplify Beuys' unusual fusion of ideology and myth with formal invention.

Joseph Beuys: In the Mu Mok Collection

Text by Wolfgang Dreschsler, Doris Leutgeb.
Published by Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg

This sampler explores three Joseph Beuys works in three media: the collection of drawings, Kölner Mappe or Cologne Portfolio; the sculptural object "Tür," or "Door;" and an environment, "Basisraum Nasse Wäsche," literally "Basic Room Wet Laundry." The Cologne Portfolio is an unusually broad, privately assembled group of 64 Beuys drawings made between 1945 and 1973, put together by a Cologne collector and later brought to Vienna's Museum of Modern Art. "Tür," 1954-56, is a burnt door to which Beuys applied a heron's skull and a rabbit pelt. The installation piece, "Basisraum Nasse Wäsche," was created in 1979 for two Viennese exhibitions, and has traveled to several venues over the years. Photo documentation of its various presentations shows how very much each exhibition space has impacted this important Beuys environment.

Joseph Beuys: The Multiples

Edited by Jàrg Schellmann. Essays by Dierk Stemmler, Joan Rothfuss, Jàrg Schellmann and Peter Nisbet. Afterword by James Cuno and Kathy Halbreich.
Published by Edition Schellmann

Out of print since 1999, the classic catalogue raisonnª of Joseph Beuys's multiples is available again at last. Beuys, the most influential German--and perhaps the most influential European--artist of the postwar period, was born in 1921. He had planned to be a doctor, but following World War II he enrolled in the Dsseldorf Academy of Art. As a professor there in the early 1960s he encountered the influence of Fluxus and began to make and show the multiples--prints and boxes and other objects in editions--that became such a key part of his work. Those highlighted here include sleds, pieces of felt, signed head shots of the artist and texts calligraphed onto bank notes in francs, marks and schillings. Bruno Cora Tea mocks both mass production and boutique cachet by refilling a Coca-Cola bottle with tea, resealing it with flourishes worthy of a Belgian beer, and putting the whole thing in a glass-fronted box. Joseph Beuys: Multiples includes some 600 pieces, annotated lists of the major collections where they can be found, essays from significant curators and scholars and an interview with the artist.

Rodin & Beuys

Edited by Pamela Kort and Max Hollein. Essays by Claude Keisch, Helene Pinet, Josephine Gabler and Dieter Koepplin.
Published by Richter Verlag

Between 1947 and 1964 Joseph Beuys produced a swath of works on paper that, in their style, technique, and formal vocabulary, echo those of Auguste Rodin by way of his teacher and mentor, sculptor, Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Although Beuys's work remains very different from his predecessors', it does take up themes they had pursued, including the idea of the torso as an autonomous, enclosed form and of the fragment as the simplest and most elementary embodiment of immutability. This book sets Beuys's works on paper and sculptures opposite the works on paper and sculptures of Rodin and Lehmbruck, and finds both striking affinities and autonomy.

Joseph Beuys: The Art Of Cooking

Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Text by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini.
Published by Charta

Joseph Beuys: Drawings Based On The Codices Madrid By Da Vinci

Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Contributions by Martin Kemp. Text by Ann Temkin, Cornelia Lauf.
Published by Dia Art Foundation

Joseph Beuys: We Go This Way

By Caroline Tisdall. Artwork by Joseph Beuys.
Published by Violette Editions

Joseph Beuys: Multiples

Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Edited by Jàrg Schellmann.
Published by Edition Schellmann

This first full English language edition has been updated to include corrections as well as additions to the original German language editions.

Joseph Beuys: Diary Of Seychelles

Artwork by Joseph Beuys.
Published by Charta

This beautifully produced book documents an extraordinary chapter in Joseph Beuys' life and work: his artistic and poetic experience during a stay in the Seychelles toward the end of his life. Included here are an account of Beuys' own writings during this important period and a variety of related objects, some of them never previously exhibited: artwork, documents, manuscripts and souvenirs. Together they form a unique “diary” reflecting Beuys' mature belief about the relationship of art, nature and modern culture.

Joseph Beuys: Arena

Where would I have got if I had been intelligent!

Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Text by Pamela Kort, Christopher Phillips.
Published by DIA ART FOUNDATION

Arena is a major but rarely exhibited Beuys work that consists of 100 panels containing several hundred photographs of Beuys, spanning the artist's career from the late 40s to 1972. Realized in 1973, "Arena" attains a monumental scale and the sort of grand design appropriate to an artistic summa; as such, the project amounts to a broad portrait of Beuys' artistic persona. It is here documented for the first time.

Joseph Beuys: Documenta Work

By Caroline Tisdall. Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Contributions by Rainer Rappmann. Text by Veit Loers.
Published by Cantz

Joseph Beuys: Die Aktionen

Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Contributions by Uwe Schneede.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers