Review: Daniel Spaulding's "Joseph Beuys and History" Examines an Unmourned Artist
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Tom Allen
Summary
Tom Allen reviews Daniel Spaulding's monograph "Joseph Beuys and History," which argues that the German artist Joseph Beuys has never been properly mourned or historicized. Spaulding's book attempts to "hold open the wound" of Beuys's legacy rather than neatly assimilating him into art historical narratives. The review explores Spaulding's critical approach to Beuys's work, his relationship to postwar German history, and the broader implications of writing art history that resists closure.
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Twitter / XReview: Daniel Spaulding's "Joseph Beuys and History" Examines an Unmourned Artiste-flux.comKey quotes
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The German artist... has 'never been mourned,' and it is this fact that makes the project of writing about him now bot
Spaulding wants to 'postpone the onset of art history in order to hold open the wound' that Beuys represents.
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