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How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
1965
With honey and gold leaf on his head, Beuys whispers to a dead hare. Explanation becomes ritual rather than lecture.
Artist field note
Joseph Beuys
Myth, politics and pedagogy as sculpture.
The five in one idea
Beuys expanded sculpture until teaching, ecology, politics and collective action could all count as artistic material.