{"product_id":"joseph-beuys-and-history","title":"Joseph Beuys and History","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"143\"\u003eDaniel Spaulding's book \u003cem data-start=\"6\" data-end=\"32\"\u003eJoseph Beuys and History\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new and in-depth interpretation of the controversial German artist Joseph Beuys. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Beuys (1921–1986) was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century – and one of the most controversial. Working in post-World War II Germany, he explored a radically expanded concept of art through a practice ranging from performative actions to large sculptural ensembles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"493\"\u003eWhile some contemporaries found his assertion that “everyone is an artist” liberating and even revolutionary, others accused him of promoting a dangerous personality cult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"684\" data-end=\"1134\"\u003eBy situating Beuys in the context of Germany’s postwar reconstruction, Spaulding shows how the artist’s layered biological, political, and economic metaphors offered a potent means of understanding the development of human freedom, the place of art in capitalist modernity, and the possibility of an ecological aesthetic. At the same time, the unsettling echoes of the Nazi past in his work point to the fact that not everything could be reconciled in what Beuys called “social sculpture.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Spaulding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53828805001557,"sku":"120386","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0242\/1070\/2416\/files\/JosephBeuysandhistory.jpg?v=1779879585","url":"https:\/\/butik.louisiana.dk\/en-int\/products\/joseph-beuys-and-history","provider":"Louisiana Design Butik","version":"1.0","type":"link"}