Joseph Beuys (Critical Lives)

Joseph Beuys (Critical Lives)Joseph Beuys is one of the most important and controversial German artists of the late twentieth century, an artist whose persona and art is so tightly interwoven with Germanys fascist pastBeuys was, after all, a former soldier in the Third Reichthat he has been a problematic figure for postwar and post reunification Germany. In illuminating the centrality of trauma and the sustained investigation of the notion of art as the two defining threads in

Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s

"My Tongue in Your Cheek is the first full-length survey of the work of Kendell Geers

which won the Lange- Taylor Documentary Prize

and visually stunning bead art created by the woman of MonkeyBiz

And where destiny is shaped in the claire-obscures nooks of childhood

and explanatory captions clarify the messages contained in the survival documents

the former capital of Nigeria

Within ten tracks

Bottled memories of familiar scenarios which

Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then 'drawing on' or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through

and how to build a distinctive – perhaps even great – collection of your own

Mundo de Papel demonstrates the elaborate life-sized paper sculptures of internationally renowned artist Thomas Demand in the most ambitious book project of his work yet