Joseph Beuys: Honey is flowing in all directions (2002)

Name: Joseph Beuys: Honey is flowing in all directions (2002)
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SKU: 9783958299153
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By Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl

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At documenta 6 in 1977, Joseph Beuys realised his visionary art project Honeypump in the Workplace at the Fridericianum Museum in Kassel, where two tons of honey were pumped through a 17-metre-high pipe system. This installation embodied his concept of art as a catalyst for societal change, incorporating talks, discussions and citizen involvement over 100 days. The book documents this pioneering fusion of creativity and activism through photographs and reflections by Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, cultural activism and interdisciplinary creativity.

On January 9th, 1974, Joseph Beuys travelled to America for the very first time in his life. This unique travel report, which lay unpublished for over 20 years, is now presented in the exact format intended by Beuys.

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Kassel, documenta 1977. A pump driven by two strong motors forces two tons of honey over a 17-metre-high pipe into a network of tubes that traverses the rooms of the Fridericianum Museum. This was the core of Joseph Beuys' Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research, which he brought to life at documenta 6.

Around his Honeypump in the Workplace, Beuys created events that expanded his notion of art and starkly differentiated it from tradition. For Beuys, "workplace" meant talks, speeches, workgroup discussions, and citizens' action committees. For 100 days, he tirelessly expressed his ideas on how art and society must necessarily change, filling numerous blackboards with texts, diagrams, and musical scores.

On 28 June 1977, Beuys invited Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl to join him in servicing and maintaining his honeypump, which was carefully documented in the photographs of this book, first published in 1997 and now re-conceived by Staeck and Steidl.

Truth must be found in reality, not systems. - Joseph Beuys

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783958299153

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 June 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 86 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 740g

Pages: 104

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Arts & Culture Gerhard Steidl Klaus Staeck Non-Fiction

About the Author

Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Joseph Beuys (1921-86) was a sculptor, draughtsman, action and installation artist, as well as a teacher, politician and activist. After serving as a soldier in World War II, experiences that would strongly shape his practice, he studied sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was made professor in 1961. From the early 1960s Beuys dissolved the difference between his biography and art, and increasingly employed his persona and charisma in what he deemed art's ultimate purpose: to radically democratize society. He called for the adoption of his universalist conception of art as a creative, transformative force within politics, science, philosophy and economics. Now as then, Beuys exerts a palpable influence upon artistic and political discourse.