Joseph Beuys

London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. First Edition. Folio in black cloth in black jacket; 288 pages: illustrations; 31 cm. Good(+) in good(-) jacket. A legitimately discarded ex-library copy with stamp on title page and rear pastedown; moderate wear to jacket; tear to spine tail where spine label was removed; accidental vertical crease to length of front flap of jacket; light scratches and edgewear to this former library book; several spots on verso jacket with tape residue or signs of tape being removed; cloth is moderately to heavily rubbed along the top and bottom edges of boards with exposed open corners; age toning to perimeter of pages; o/w a solid copy with clean, crease-free pages. Hardcover. ISBN: 0500091366

In English. 513 Illustrations. "The aim of the book is to explain how everything he has done - from performances with a hare, a horse, or a coyote, to twleve-hour lectures and a sculpture consisting of twenty tons of fat - shares in a common purpose: "the victory of socialist warmth and self-determination over materialist greed and alienation." --Jacket. My objects are to be seen as stimulents for the transformation of the idea of sculpture, or of art in general. They should provoke thoughts about what sculpture can be and how the concept of sculpting can be extended to the invisible materials used by everyone: Thinking forms--How we mould our thoughts or; Spoken forms--how we shape our thoughts into words or; Social sculpture--how we mould and shape the world in which we live: Sculpture as an evolutionary process; everyone an artist. That is why the nature of my sculpture is not fixed and finished. Processes continue in most of them: chemical reactions, fermentations, colour changes, decay, drying up. Everything is in a state of change. -- Joseph Beuys, page 6 // **Heavy item.. Additional shipping fees may be needed. Please inquire**