Noble muddle

From: The Spectator | Date: September 4, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Exhibitions

Joseph Beuys Drawings: The secret block for a secret person in Ireland

(Royal Academy, till 16 September)

Joseph Beuys: Editions

(Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, till 19 September)

The late Joseph Beuys told the magazine Der Spiegel that at the age of four he was visited by an angelic figure who instructed him, `Extend the concept of art.' It is hard to know whether Beuys himself believed that story. He had a strong sense of humour, and was quite capable of telling fairy stories about himself. One such is the oft-told tale - currently repeated on the walls of the ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Visual art: You have to try saying it in German
; Joseph Beuys: Editions Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Joseph Beuys Drawings Royal Academy, London For no...1999 seems to have been declared National Joseph Beuys Year by the British art establishment...
A sober, straightforward look at artist Joseph Beuys
; JOSEPH BEUYS By Heiner Stachelhaus Translated by David...95 In 1943 a young German soldier named Joseph Beuys was shot down while flying a dive bomber...became part of the legend of the artist Joseph Beuys, who often used fat and felt in his radical...
Joseph Beuys, medicine man
; For Joseph Beuys, the only certainty in life...Maciunas. By 1965, inevitably, Beuys had broken with the group...early stardom to old age. For Beuys, Greta Garbo was the ultimate...Braun-kreuz - the brown pigment of Beuys's own, accidental invention...Once again the complexity of Beuys's ...
MODERN MASTER'S HISTORY LESSONS.
; Byline: PHILIP HENSHER Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments...went to the Tate's exhibition of Joseph Beuys while it was still being set up...say it most convincingly about Joseph Beuys. And yet Beuys is an artist whom...
Anything I can do...
; THE ESSENTIAL JOSEPH BEUYS by Alain Borer Thames...art. The German artist Joseph Beuys (192186) went a lot further...Likes Me', consisted of Beuys, wrapped in a sheet of...bewildered coyote gazing up at Beuys. Another, very admirable...
THROUGH HIS BIZARRE WORK, BEUYS SOUGHT TO HEAL WOUNDS
; PROVIDENCE - Joseph Beuys was serving as a radioman aboard German...performance hangs in "Another View of Joseph Beuys: From a Private Collection" at Providence...Brown University's "Another View of Joseph Beuys: Multiples From New England Collections...
Art for odd's sake
; ...for our walls. And then there is Joseph Beuys, just as likely to appear in critics...post-war European avant-garde art, Joseph Beuys remains an enigma to much of the...Next week sees the opening of Joseph Beuys: Editions at the Scottish Gallery...
Beuys exhibit celebrates intuition over rationality.
; ...Museum acquired a set of the late Joseph Beuys' prints and objects from the Willy...Tuition: A Seminar's Engagement With Joseph Beuys, which, in essence, consists of...Tuition: A Seminar's Engagement With Joseph Beuys at the Busch-Reisinger Museum...
The Arts: The shaman and the coyote He created sculpture out of congealed animal fat and, with his head covered in gold leaf and honey, tried to explain art to a dead hare. Yet despite the apparent lunacy, the artist Joseph Beuys was a magical figure with something serious to communicate, says Martin Gayford
; ...a typical performance by Joseph Beuys - mysterious, incomprehensible...yet strangely memorable. Beuys, who died in 1986, is widely...head). In his later years, Beuys would expound political and...Council, described encountering Beuys at the Edinburgh Festival...skull beneath the skin.' ...
Joseph Beuys' prints display power of his visual artistry
; Joseph Beuys died in 1986. And despite...better known today than when Beuys was at the height of his...or ethnological museums. Beuys, however, also was a powerful...hardly gives the full sense of Beuys' numerous activities or of...interrelatedness, but it does reveal Beuys' feel for ...