Beuys
Americannoun
noun
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The late, great German Conceptual artist Joseph Beuys used to say, “Everybody is an artist,” but I’d much rather see a big museum show of Beuys’ pungent art than a big show of “everybody’s.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023
Referring to Beuys’s sculptures, he writes that “the objects had power not simply because Beuys decided they did, but because he believed, and let others believe, that they had power.”
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022
He was, perhaps, channeling Joseph Beuys, the German conceptual artist who once said, “The act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act.”
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
Beuys created his greatest installation, Tramstop, for the German Pavilion at the 1976 Venice Biennale.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2021
"Syr Tryamoure," "Syr Beuys of Hampton," "Syr Isumbras," "Syr Degore," "The Knight of the Swanne," "Virgilius," and many others were published by W. Copland about 1550.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
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