Joseph Beuys (Studies in World Art Book 42)
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Many people – among them most art-world insiders – think the Joseph Beuys was the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century. Beuys was many things – a shaman, a trickster, a charismatic social and political activist. He spearheaded the return to prominence of the German avant-garde, post-World War II, and his impact on both the European and American art worlds continues to be felt today, nearly twenty years after his death in January 1986. In big surveys of contemporary art only two deceased artists continue to be presented as ‘current’. One is Beuys, and the other is his near-contemporary Andy Warhol, who died a year later, in February 1987.
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