JOSEPH BEUYS

J. Beuys is one of the most important and controversial German artists of the late twentieth century, an artist whose persona and ar t is so tightly interwoven with Germanys fascist pastBeuys was, after all, a former soldier in the Third Reichthat he has been a problematic figure for postwar and post-reunification Germany. In illuminating the centrality of trauma and the sustained investigat ion of the notion of art as the two defining threads in Beuys's life and art, this book offers a critical biography that deepens our understandi...[Read more]