Leonard Woolf
English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant (1880-1969)
Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and, with Heinrich Boll, Johannes Stuttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research (FIU). He previously in his talks and performances also formed The Party for Animals and The Organisation for Direct Democracy.
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About the Joseph Beuys
Joseph Heinrich Beuyswas a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and, with Heinrich Boll, Johannes Stuttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Researchat Oxford Brookes University where Johannes Stuttgen, Caroline Tisdall and Volker Harlan were reseasrch fellows, and since 2021, through the Social Sculpture Lab, curated by Sacks and hosted by the Documenta Archive in 2021 for the Beuys Centenery. The Social Sculpture Lab continues to engage with, develop and share Beuys’ social sculpture understandings through initiatives like the 7000 HUMANS Global Social Forest that has close connections with Beuys’ 7000 Oaks, Sacks’ social sculpture-connective practice methodologies, and a growing network of Social Sculpture Hubs in Germany, India, Holland, Brazil and UK.
Beuys was professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 1961 until 1972. He was a founding member and life-long supporter of the German Green Party.
4 Quotes by Joseph Beuys
- 1.
Let’s talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It’s a Gigantic project.
Joseph BeuysGerman artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)
- 2.
Every man is an artist.
Joseph BeuysGerman artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)
- 3.
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
Joseph BeuysGerman artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)
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I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
Joseph BeuysGerman artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)