JOSEPH BEUYS AND HISTORY

This publication presents a striking new interpretation of Beuyss work and career. By putting Beuys in the context of Germanys postwar recovery, Spaulding shows that the artists superimposed biological, political, and economic metaphors offered a powerful way to think about the trajectory of human freedom, the place of art in capitalist modernity, and the possibility of an ecological aesthetics. At the same time, his oeuvres disquieting echoes of the Nazi past suggest that not everything could be reconciled in what Beuys called social...[Read more]