# Joseph Beuys: Intuition!: Dimensions of the Early Work of Joseph Beuys, 1946-1961 - Hardcover

by **Joseph Beuys** (Artist), **Harald Kunde** (Foreword by), **Volker Harlan** (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

**How Beuys combined his political, scientific, spiritual and artistic concerns into a compelling vision of "social sculpture"**

This book examines the crucial period between Joseph Beuys' (1921-86) return to his hometown of Kleve after World War II at the age of 24 and his appointment as a professor at the Kunstakademie D sseldorf in 1961. During this "incubation" phase, key themes relevant to his future work emerged, which structure this book: biography as material for artistic formation; poetry/romanticism; natural sciences: physics, chemistry, botany, zoology and geography; philosophy/anthropology and Steiner; economics, capitalism, labor, politics. The aim of this book, along with the 2021 exhibition of the same name at Museum Kurhaus Kleve for which it is the catalog, is neither to venerate a local saint of Kleve nor to topple an artist from an earlier generation. Instead it highlights the influences and ideas that saw Beuys develop from a "sensitive traditionalist" into a "visionary social sculptor."

**Number of Pages:** 200

**Dimensions:** 0.94 x 11.81 x 8.43 IN

**Publication Date:** June 28, 2022

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