Joseph Beuys: We go this way
Caroline Tisdall
“Biography means more than just a personal thing. It means the interrelationship of all processes and not the splitting of life into separate compartments: a wholeness.” – Joseph Beuys, from a conversation with Caroline Tisdall, 1978
The working partnership of writer Caroline Tisdall and artist Joseph Beuys is at the heart of this book, a photographic record documenting their wide-ranging travels for Beuys’s performances, installations and lectures from the early 1970s until his death in 1986.
We Go This Way, refers to a phrase used by Beuys in his work with Tisdall and suggests a way forward through the often daunting complexity of Beuys’s philosophy and art. More than 300 of Tisdall’s own photographs, are accompanied throughout by a text in which Tisdall leads the reader through such diverse topics as Beuys’s relationship to ecology, politics, shamanism, alchemy, botany, literature, economics, philosophy and psychology.
Violette Editions
1998
Hardcover
21 x 30 cm
304 pages
£100
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Caroline Tisdall
“Biography means more than just a personal thing. It means the interrelationship of all processes and not the splitting of life into separate compartments: a wholeness.” – Joseph Beuys, from a conversation with Caroline Tisdall, 1978
The working partnership of writer Caroline Tisdall and artist Joseph Beuys is at the heart of this book, a photographic record documenting their wide-ranging travels for Beuys’s performances, installations and lectures from the early 1970s until his death in 1986.
We Go This Way, refers to a phrase used by Beuys in his work with Tisdall and suggests a way forward through the often daunting complexity of Beuys’s philosophy and art. More than 300 of Tisdall’s own photographs, are accompanied throughout by a text in which Tisdall leads the reader through such diverse topics as Beuys’s relationship to ecology, politics, shamanism, alchemy, botany, literature, economics, philosophy and psychology.
Violette Editions
1998
Hardcover
21 x 30 cm
304 pages
£100
Enquire