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Social sculpture is a phrase used to describe an expanded concept of art that was invented by the artist and founding member of the German Green Party, Joseph Beuys. Beuys created the term "social sculpture" to embody his understanding of art's potential to transform society. As a work of art, a social sculpture includes human activity that ...
As a social sculpture, The Letters of Utrecht refer to the 7000 Oaks of Joseph Beuys in Kassel, Germany. Beuys named his work City Forestation Instead of City Administration and conceptualized man's dependency on nature, referring to it as a 'Wärmezeitmaschine' ('heat-time-machine'). [16]
Beuys' social sculpture proposals and underpinning ideas have been extensively explored, shared and developed through the practices, pedagogies, actions and writings of his master student and collaborator Shelley Sacks, first in South Africa in the 1970s as a branch of the Free International University (FIU); in the first Social Sculpture ...
The Broad, with the Getty's PST Art, is presenting an exhibition of Joseph Beuys' work and planting trees in Elysian Park and at the Kuruvungna Village Springs.
7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration (German: 7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwaltung) is a work of land art by the German artist Joseph Beuys. It was first publicly presented in 1982 at documenta 7 .
Beuys copied the coyote, roaming when it roamed, resting when it rested. At the end of the performance, Beuys, still wrapped in felt, returned home to Germany in the same manner whence he came. [2] Caroline Tisdall, Beuys's collaborator and travel companion, documented the performance in black and white photographs and on video. [4]
In homage to his artistic legacy (via evocations of cubism via Pablo Picasso, surrealism via Duchamp, and the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys), the piece evokes Morrison's "personal art history codified, filtered, and serialized" with the artist's characteristic sound, a "raspy chatter" from steel wires in the shelves that "picks up random ...
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