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Kunst und Kunstaktionen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland = Art and art-actions in the Federal Republic of Germany = Art et actions artistiques en République Fédérale d’Allemagne

Christo, Horn, Beuys, et al. Wolfgang Längsfeld, (Editor)

Munich. Heinz Moos Verlag. 1975
A scarce and highly engaging art calendar, an excellent document of time and place.

Richly illustrated with over 100 images documenting in detail art and art-actions in the Federal Republic of Germany in the mid-1970s. Cover reproduces an image of Joseph Beuys being rowed in a dug-out canoe across the Rhine at Düsseldorf in 1974.

Among the illustrated works is Christo's 'Packing Monschau Castle' work (1971) as well as Rebecca Horn’s 'Mechanical Body Fan', 1973.
pp. 42. Folio. (420 x 320 mm). Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Original publisher's spiral bound red printed boards with an image of Joseph Beuys in a dug-out canoe.
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