{"id":53,"date":"2015-10-12T17:36:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=53"},"modified":"2016-01-09T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:30:25","slug":"joseph-beuys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/joseph-beuys\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Beuys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Beuys (12 May 1921 \u2013 23 January 1986) was a German <a href=\"\/wiki\/fluxus\/\">Fluxus<\/a>, <a href=\"\/wiki\/happenings\/\">happening<\/a> and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his &#8220;extended definition of art&#8221; and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate, even acrimonious public debate.<\/p>\n<p>In 1961, Beuys was appointed professor of &#8216;monumental sculpture&#8217; at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf. Beuys manifested his social philosophical ideas in abolishing entry requirements to his D\u00fcsseldorf class. Throughout the late 1960s this renegade policy caused great institutional friction, which came to a head in October 1972 when Beuys was dismissed from his post. That year he found 142 applicants who had not been accepted that he wished to enroll under his teaching.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Beuys (12 May 1921 \u2013 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his &#8220;extended definition of art&#8221; and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/joseph-beuys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joseph Beuys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,6],"tags":[25,24],"coauthors":[103],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics-art-history-and-cultural-institutions","category-experimental-pedagogy","category-individuals-and-groups","tag-experimental-pedagogy","tag-joseph-beuys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}