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1 / 1Joseph Beuys: Arena—where would I have got if I had been intelligent!
Consisting of one hundred panels containing several hundred photographs of Beuys, spanning the artist's career from the late 1940s to 1972, Arena—where would I have got if I had been intelligent! attains a monumental scale and the sort of grand design appropriate to an artistic summa; as such, the project amounts to a broad portrait of Beuys's artistic persona. It is here documented for the first time. The work is fully illustrated in 102 full-page color plates and 45 black-and-white comparative photographs. Essays by Pamela Kort and Christopher Phillips. Interview with Lucio Amelio. Introduction by Lynne Cooke.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Dia Art Foundation
- ISBN
- 9780944521298
- Publication date
- 1994
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 300 pages
- Dimension
- 9 x 12 in.
- Publication credits
- Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. Text by Pamela Kort and Christopher Phillips
Related Artists
Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1921. He died in Düsseldorf in 1986.
Related Exhibitions
Exhibition
Joseph Beuys: Fond sculptures, Codices Madrid drawings (1974), and 7000 Oaks, a permanent installation furthering Beuys' Documenta 7 project
October 9, 1987–June 19, 1988, Dia Chelsea
Read more![[For 1996 installation image]](/media/w330h330/webimages/beu-d-arena-pg65-hi-bk.jpg)
Exhibition
Joseph Beuys: Arena--where would I have got if I had been intelligent!, 1970-1972
January 23, 1992–April 4, 1993, Dia Chelsea
Read more![[Should we add somewhere that there are 96 drawings total so it's clear this one page, or the three, are not the piece in its entirety?]](/media/w330h330/webimages/beu-1980-411-0005.jpg)
Exhibition
Joseph Beuys: Drawings after the Codices Madrid of Leonardo da Vinci, and Sculpture
September 10, 1998–June 13, 1999, Dia Chelsea
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