Thinking Is Form 

• 1993 
• Rose, Bernice 

  + 1

  Temkin, Ann
• Miscellaneous 
• Philadelphia Museum of Art 

  + 1

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Books

Thinking Is Form

The Drawings of Joseph Beuys

Rose, Bernice, Temkin, Ann

Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1993

Art, Catalogue

First edition

280

24.7 x 29.2 cm

0-87633-089-8

Paperback Catalog of the exibition in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and The Artinstitute of Chicago in 1993 and 1994 280 pages.172 plates with many illustrations. Texts by Ann Temkin, Bernice Rose and Dieter Koepplin Beuys, like Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, precisely orchestrated his public image, building a personal myth that has the power to bind together his entire oeuvre. This book attempts to break through the mass of obscurantist writing about Joseph Beuys, to introduce him in a simple and clear manner through his individual drawings, used here as the basis for discussions of his life, art and ideas. Some employ such media as hare's blood or margarine, or are realized on envelopes, emphasizing their function as a reservoir of ideas for Beuy's sculpture, "actions", performance art and other enterprises.