BEUYS, Joseph

Beuys was a German artist and art college professor who customarily made his sculptures out of found material, such as bricks or bits of felt. Often, his sculptures were assembled and disassembled on the spot, as part of the work itself, by the viewers, giving the exhibition of his art some qualities of a theatrical event. He hit New York in 1974 with a gallery show in which he lived in a cage with a coyote for several days. Beuys also...