Props for the Memory and Doing Wrong in the Work of Joseph Beuys
November 18, 2003
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About the Program
Props for the Memory and Doing Wrong in the Work of Joseph Beuys by Kristine Stiles, presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery, opened the 2003 LIVE Biennial of Performance Art. No other artist of the twentieth century who engaged in war on the side of doing wrong has been as celebrated as German artist Joseph Beuys. In an unprecedented examination of the way Beuys' iconography relates to National Socialism, Stiles suggests that Beuys used his art as 'a prop for the memory' of the Third Reich.Dr. Kristine Stiles is an artist and the France Family Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She specializes in performance and experimental art, and is internationally recognized for her scholarship on destruction, violence, and trauma. She has received many fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim and a Fulbright.
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Kristine StilesIdentifier
2003.1018 PROPart of the series
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2003Collection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
UBC Robson Square Theatre800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6E 1A7
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