Every man is the artist. J.B.
Artist
Art Educator
Draftsman
Sculptor
Provocateur
Performer
Activist
Politician
Reader
Theorist
the most influential thinker among artists of the postwar generation
a symbolist, an expressionist, a mystical romanticist
the most prophetic voice
the Picasso of the avant-garde
showman as well as shaman
Let Beuys himself tell us about his oeuvre:
Joseph Beuys interviewed by William Furlong and Michael Newman at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.
To follow up:
Joseph Beuys in America: Energy plan for the Western Man (writings by and interviews with the artist, with introductory essays by Kim Levin and Caroline Tisdall, compiled by Carin Kuoni);
Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1990
Joseph Beuys by Heiner Stachelhaus, translated by David Britt;
Abbeville Press Publishers New York London Paris, 1991
Joseph Beuys The Reader, edited and translated by Claudia Mesch and Viola Michely;
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007
*in this collage: J.B.,Stag, ferric chloride, pencil on paper, 1957; still image from the video:
I Like America and America Likes Me. Produced by René Block Gallery, New York, 1974