Joeseph Beuys: Coyote (Photographs by Caroline Tisdall)--SIGNED by Beuys
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Joeseph Beuys: Coyote Text & Photographs by Caroline Tisdall. Schrimer/Mosel, München, 1976/1980. 159 pp. Oblong quarto. Second edition. SIGNED on front fly leaf. Cloth bound in photo-illustrated dust jacket (First edition was issued in softbound only). Black-and-white reproductions.
"This volume was the first attempt to capture a performance by Joseph Beuys in book form. Since its first appearance in 1976, it has become one of the most sought after documents of its kind, representing an important landmark in the way his art has been received. Beuys' most famous Action, "I Like America and America Likes Me", took place in May 1974, when he spent seven days and nights in a room with a wild coyote.The artist's activities during his confinement with the coyote followed a repeated pattern. He employed a number of objects: felt, a walking stick, gloves, a flashlight and the "Wall Street Journal" fifty copies were delivered daily, in two piles. Over the period of a week, man and beast developed a mode of wordless co-existence, a twosided performance that became rich with assumed meanings. Caroline Tisdall, a longstanding friend of the artist, who has written extensively on Beuys and has directed films about him, took most of the photographs and wrote the accompanying text"--(from the publisher's description of the 2010 Thames & Hudson (reprint)
For me it is the idea of the word that produces all images. It is the key sign for all forms of moulding and organizing. When I speak using a theoretical language, I try to induce the impulses of this power, the power of the whole understanding of language which for me is the spiritual understanding of evolution.
But language is not to be understood simply in terms of speech and words. That is our current drastically reduced understanding of language, a parallel to the reduced understanding of politics and economics. Beyond language as a verbalization lies a world of sound and impulses, a language of primary sound, without semantic content, but laden with completely different levels of information.
Every form of life speaks a language, untapped and unheard.--Joseph Beuys
Item Condition
Just a trace of wear at extremities; otherwise Fine.
