Joseph Beuys Plight 1986 : State of the Art Episode 3

This is from an episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. To buy the DVD, please go to www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

Filmed in Europe, the United States and Australia in 1985-6, the six programmes feature many key artists including -- in addition to Joseph Beuys -- Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, Eric Fischl and Cindy Sherman. The films also explore the intellectual context of the time and the ideas of post-modernism.

The series was originally seen on Channel 4 in Britain, and then shown in more than 20 countries.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Joseph
• Beuys
• Plight
• 1986
• Art
• Artist
• German
• Illuminations
• documentary

[PutterLee]

anyone know how to get a hold of this documentary? the website no longer, so i imagine a free download is out there somewhere

[vlodigiani]

I most humbly suggest maybe you should read a little more about his work. He was the first artist to actually give material, as raw material, an emotional charge. What materials evoke on their own, the warmth of the felt, its receptive power and healing properties. Like a gentle mother's embrace.

This amongst many other things.

[emann1066]

Beuys was full of crap. Anyone who's spent any time around nurses and doctors and business people knows they are not artists. This absurd claim was made to reinforce Beuys' standing as a counter culture icon, the fact that HE is the artist.

[herrseele]

I saw it in London

[kaktisbalaktikakel]

not very nice

[ninawillams]

drunk and lost-find a place with a gun,or a noose or the bottom of a jar of pills or a big drop,or a razor or a litr of vodka..........

[kaktisbalaktikakel]

me too. twice. with two different woman. both gone now. both missed. emblazoned. hidden away. Exhibition at the barracks ( cant rememeber the nam of the area, the kasenre maybe. straight down from the trocadero, beyond the tower and then up to the left...) told ya. Im drunk and lost. came across your comment by accident, wait a minute, thought this was the basquiat thing.

[ninawillams]

i seen this in paris,its amazing,the silence in the muffeled room is defening and givs de felling of being in a vast open space

[sandiegoactress]

Fantastic; thank you for posting this.