1974
Offset lithograph
Exhibition poster for the Minneapolis, MN stop on artist, theorist, and activist Joseph Beuys' (1921-1986) 1974 lecture tour "Energy Plan for the Western Man."
text at lower margin: Beuys. Free admission at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 133 East 25 Thurs, January 17, 1974 at 1:00 PM also appearing Friday, January 18, 1974 at 10:00 AM Dayton's Gallery 12, 2:00 PM Mann Court Architecture Bldg, Univ of Minn. Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis.
Height 56 7/8" Width 37 1/2
Provenance: Private Collection, New Mexico
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986)—the German artist and theorist of “social sculpture”—used lectures, drawings, and actions to argue for an expanded idea of art in which creative energy reshapes society (he often said, “Everyone is an artist”). In January 1974 he made his first U.S. lecture tour, “Energy Plan for the Western Man,” giving free public talks and chalkboard discussions that promoted his Free International University and ideas about direct democracy and cultural renewal. This poster announces the Minneapolis stop—MCAD (Jan 17), Dayton’s Gallery 12 and the University of Minnesota (Jan 18)—events that also yielded related prints and notes; the tour set the stage for his later 1974 New York action I Like America and America Likes Me. Rare.
1974
Offset lithograph
Exhibition poster for the Minneapolis, MN stop on artist, theorist, and activist Joseph Beuys' (1921-1986) 1974 lecture tour "Energy Plan for the Western Man."
text at lower margin: Beuys. Free admission at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 133 East 25 Thurs, January 17, 1974 at 1:00 PM also appearing Friday, January 18, 1974 at 10:00 AM Dayton's Gallery 12, 2:00 PM Mann Court Architecture Bldg, Univ of Minn. Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis.
Height 56 7/8" Width 37 1/2
Provenance: Private Collection, New Mexico
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986)—the German artist and theorist of “social sculpture”—used lectures, drawings, and actions to argue for an expanded idea of art in which creative energy reshapes society (he often said, “Everyone is an artist”). In January 1974 he made his first U.S. lecture tour, “Energy Plan for the Western Man,” giving free public talks and chalkboard discussions that promoted his Free International University and ideas about direct democracy and cultural renewal. This poster announces the Minneapolis stop—MCAD (Jan 17), Dayton’s Gallery 12 and the University of Minnesota (Jan 18)—events that also yielded related prints and notes; the tour set the stage for his later 1974 New York action I Like America and America Likes Me. Rare.
