An artist, a coyote, and a cage : Joseph Beuys in New York 1974 /
"May 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most notorious pieces of performance art ever staged in New York City: Joseph Beuys's "I Like America and America Likes Me." The premise - a man and a wild coyote locked together inside a room - helped build a cult following for...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Miami :
Letter16 Press, Inc.
[2024].
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: | "May 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most notorious pieces of performance art ever staged in New York City: Joseph Beuys's "I Like America and America Likes Me." The premise - a man and a wild coyote locked together inside a room - helped build a cult following for Beuys that has made him alternately revered and reviled throughout the contemporary art world. Stephen Aiken's intimately shot photographs of this May 1974 "action" in "An Artist, a Coyote, and a Cage" - recently unearthed and previously unpublished - offer a fresh look at this seminal art happening, one which continues to spark critical debate and inspire new generations of artists eager to push both boundaries and buttons. These striking images are supplemented with a set of previously unseen color photos taken by Aiken of Beuys at Greenwich Village's New School in January 1974 - verbally sparring onstage with fellow artist Hannah Wilke and jousting with a raucous audience that threatened to turn his lecture into a street fight"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 84 pages : photographs (chiefly black & white), portraits ; 26 x 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781953995049 1953995047 |