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Article: Learning curve: Tom Holert on radical art and education in Germany.
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- Artforum International
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- May 1, 2008
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ON THE AFTERNOON OF JUNE 22, 1967, Joseph Beuys called a surprise press conference at the Dusseldorf art academy, where he announced the founding of the German Student Party (DSP). It was only twenty days after a policeman had killed student Benno Ohnesorg during a demonstration against the shah of Iran's visit to Berlin--a pivotal moment in the political mobilization of students in West Germany and one that would culminate in the protests of 1968. Amid this turmoil, a photograph from the meeting shows Beuys and his students sitting and looking down with a deliberate air of circumspection at chalk diagrams the professor had drawn on the floor: lines and circles with the ...