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Stephen Aiken: An Artist, a Coyote, and a Cage
Joseph Beuys in New York 1974
- D.A.P.
- by Stephen Aiken, Brett Sokol
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Publisher | D.A.P. |
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ISBN | 9781953995049 |
Author(s) | Stephen Aiken, Brett Sokol |
Publication date | May 2024 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | 260 x 285 mm |
Illustrations | 11 col.ill. | 38 bw.ill. |
Pages | 88 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
New documentation of Joseph Beuys' controversial performance piece.
May 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Joseph Beuys' infamous piece of performance art staged in New York City: I Like America and America Likes Me. The premise-a man and a wild coyote locked together inside a room-helped build a cult following for Beuys that has made him alternately revered and reviled throughout the contemporary art world. Stephen Aiken's (born 1948) photographs of this May 1974 "action" by Beuys-recently unearthed and previously unpublished-offer a fresh look at this seminal art happening. These striking images are supplemented with a set of previously unseen color photos taken by Aiken of Beuys at Greenwich Village's New School in January 1974: verbally sparring onstage with fellow artist Hannah Wilke and jousting with a raucous audience that threatened to turn his lecture into a brawl.