Artist field note

Joseph Beuys

Myth, politics and pedagogy as sculpture.

I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys — Example from the series
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I Like America and America Likes Me

1974

Wrapped in felt, Beuys spends days with a coyote. National myth is approached through symbolic encounter.

The five in one idea

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