Author: Beuys, Joseph.
Title: Joseph Beuys : Raum 90.000 DM.
Description: Testo di Sarenco. Fotografie di Anna Guglielmi, Friedrich Rosenstiel. Milano & Verona : factotummulthipla, [1982]. Hardcover. Dustjacket. [90 pp. Mostly illustrations (in color). 31 cm. Italian & English text. Numbered copy 208/1000. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - RAUM 90.000 DM. Joseph Beuys constructed this environment in 1981, and it's characterized by by some of the sculptural elements most typical of his work: the bath-tub, the clay, the rusty metals. But our awareness of real objects in his work has to come to terms with the complexity of fsome of the new concepts that Beuys has attempted to elaborate over the course of the last few years: the concept of social sculpture and the concept that art capital (Kunst Kapital). The energy of the sculpture (the waste drip- pings of cast aluminum, the water mixed with sulphuric acid in the bath-tub, the clay that loses volume as it dries and cracks into a variety of f p patterns) is carefully and precisely theorized in the drawing (or score) that accompanies it The basic notion that guides this work is underlined by its title, and it's the fruit of an equation that the artist calculates hetween the material and cultural value of his work and the way that value is defined in economic terms by the art that extrapolates it to the level of form and that thus deprives it of those characteristics of plastic subversion that, in terms of Beuys-thought are equivalent to political subversion. On the one hand, the elements of social sculpture are expe rienced as a part of the history of the art of a particular individual, and on the other hand, they're experienced in terms of their contact with the laws of market economy. The artist is fully aware of the enormity of the contradiction in which he's involved, and he understands that its political and social removal imply the transgression of the two forms of capitalism that now rule the world: the imperialist capitalism of the west, and the repressive bureaucratic capitalism of the east. «Raum 90.000 DM.» implies an energy that functions as a solvent and that finds its base in the affirmation that art is fundamentally a moral occupation and that it constitutes the only possible real example for social transformation and revolution. Sarenco

Keywords: ART, Beuys, Joseph (1921-1986).