Joseph Beuys Coyote

Language: DE/GB. Documentation of German artist Joseph Beuys' 1974 action "I Love America and America Loves Me," in which the artist arrived in the United States and was immediately wrapped in felt, carried via ambulance to a New York gallery (all without touching American soil), and locked in a room of the gallery with a live coyote. Photographs and text of the action provided by Beuys' collaborator Caroline Tisdall. "Since the early sixties Joseph Beuys has presented 'actions,' performances incorporating elements of theatre and ritual to express the unity of art and life. These were often performed in out-of-the-way places, seen by small audiences, and shrouded in fragmentary and inaccurate reports. In this volume Caroline Tisdall makes the first attempt to describe a Beuys action in its totality and document every stage photographically. Her text traces the ideas that form the basis of 'Coyote' [aka 'I Love America and America Loves Me'], deciphering the symbolic elements through which they were presented." - from book jacket.