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.
About Joseph Beuys
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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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.
German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)
Every man is an artist.
German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)
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.
German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)