Joseph Beuys and History

and the possibility of an ecological aesthetics. At the same time, his oeuvres disquieting echoes of the Nazi past suggest that not everything could be reconciled in what Beuys called social sculpture.A definitive account of an often-misunderstood figure, Joseph Beuys and History proposes an ambitious rewriting of the dominant narrative of modern and contemporary art, drawing from Marxian value-form theory, Hans Blumenbergs metaphorology, and ecological thought. Precisely because Beuys went to the extremes of art, the book demonstrates, he belongs at the center of its history. [Publisher's text]