BEUYS y DUCHAMP

In conversations and interviews Beuys mentioned Duchamp more than any other artist. And hardly anyone else seems to have challenged him more than this artist from the previous generation. Direct evidence of this is his oft-cited action The Silence of Marcel Ducham p is Overrated from 1964, through which Beuys attempted to shift focus onto the political and social dimensions of his concept of ex panded art. The associations and connections between the artists go deep. Both used similar radical strategies to rejuvenate the con cept of a...[Read more]