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Article: Very mixed media: Tate Modern has presented Joseph Beuys with clarity, but, asks Samson Spanier, how can any museum exhibit an artist whose work includes a 7000-tree forest?
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Joseph Beuys was the first artist to confont the silence, anger and denial that pervaded Germany after World War II, and the materials he required were fittingly unprecedented. Show Your Wound (1974/75) is an arrangement of hospital beds, blackboards, pitchforks and other items, originally staged in a disused underground passage in Munich. The hospital beds have boxes underneath them, and one can only assume that whatever life was once here has dripped into the boxes. There are two of each object in the room, all arranged side by side. This redundancy adds to the unease. The title of this work is an appeal to Germans to speak of the past. Germany is doubled--into East and ...
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Article: `Thinking Is Form' Frames Legacy of Joseph Beuys
Chicago Sun-Times;
March 6, 1994 ;
700+ words
...`Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys' Through April 24 Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan ... 3600 The German sculptor, teacher and performer Joseph Beuys is one of the most controversial figures in 20th century ...
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