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Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Beuyss insistence on the fundamentally democratic nature of human creativity suggested that every fully thinking and feeling person is, by definition, an artist, has left a widely influential and creative legacy since his death in 1986. Performance art began with marcel duchamp when he used his body as a work of art and had a star he had shaved on the back of his head. That tradition was continued in europe by a number of performance artists, perhaps the most important and influential in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s was an unusual man by the name of. Beuyss diverse body of work ranges from traditional media of drawing, painting, and sculpture, to processoriented, or timebased action art, the performance. No, i didnt read the entire book, but my idea was to read enough to try to understand german scultor joseph beuys work. As levi strauss also noted, the author of a 1983 book on coyotes compared their resilience to the resistance of the.
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