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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]
Joseph Heinrich Beuys (/ b ɔɪ s / BOYSS, German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology.
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.
Beuys' 7000 Oaks work is an example of the thread that links the Situationist International's approach to art and its re-creation by new groups continues to evolve through a new generation of socially conscious organizations that merge art, education, and environmental issues in their work.
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]
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Jahrhunderts) is a monumental installation by the German artist Joseph Beuys from 1983, at the Hamburger Bahnhof, in Berlin. It consists of large, oblong pieces of basalt, all of which have a conical hole bored into them at one end. In these holes smaller cones of rock have been placed, lined with clay and felt.