Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys

Temkin, Ann; Rose, Bernice

ISBN 10: 0876330898 / ISBN 13: 9780876330890

Published by Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Philadelphia / New York, 1993

Quarto. Softcover. Tan & illus. wraps, 278 pp., 172+ BW and color illus. A tightly bound copy; appears unread. A nice, bright copy. With illustrated essays by Ann Temkin, Bernice Rose, and Dieter Koepplin. The illustrated catalogue presents 172 specific drawings. Includes chronology, exhibitions history, and bibliography. Accompanies an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 21-May 4, 1993, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 6-Aug. 15, 1993, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 10-Jan. 2, 1993-94, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 19-Apr. 24, 1994. Close to new in shrinkwrap. Corners may have some minor bumping. Photo is from a previous copy sold out of our inventory. Seller Inventory # 156532

Synopsis:

Beuys, like Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, precisely orchestrated his public image, building a personal myth that has the power to bind together his entire oeuvre. This book attempts to break through the mass of obscurantist writing about Joseph Beuys, to introduce him in a simple and clear manner through his individual drawings, used here as the basis for discussions of his life, art and ideas. Some employ such media as hare's blood or margarine, or are realized on envelopes, emphasizing their function as a reservoir of ideas for Beuy's sculpture, "actions", performance art and other enterprises.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph ...
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Philadelphia / New York
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Softcover