Artist field note

Joseph Beuys

Myth, politics and pedagogy as sculpture.

Felt Suit by Joseph Beuys
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Felt Suit

1970

An empty suit hangs like a body-shaped absence; felt carries Beuys’s mythology of warmth, protection and survival.

The five in one idea

Beuys expanded sculpture until teaching, ecology, politics and collective action could all count as artistic material.