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Article: Back to Beuys. (exhibits of artist Joseph Beuys' work at Museum of Modern Art and Dia Art Center; New York, New York)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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The work of Joseph Beuys, virtually unseen in major U.S. museums since the artist's 1979 Guggenheim retrospective, received new attention in two recent New York exhibitions.
Seven years after his death, the transformation of Joseph Beuys into a cultural monument continues at an accelerating pace. In his native Germany, Beuys is being touted as the most significant artist of postwar Europe and spoken of in reverential tones previously reserved for figures like Goethe. Not far from his birthplace near the Dutch border, a $25-million Beuys museum and archive is taking shape. A catalogue raisonne is underway; an exhaustive, nearly 600-page annotated inventory of his ...