F.L suggested:'' Next time we should talk about Rudolf Steiner vis a vis Beuys and Fassbinder. Fassbinder hated his background. His mother was Steiner follower."
I don't care much about Steiner myself. I'm definetly more interested in Beuys and Fassbinder, or their mutual interest in creating "democratic" art. Their art was socially critical and profoundly humane.But actually I'm more interested in non celebrity art, outside the mainstream art, and I don't want to re-chew the talk on cult figures. I guess they still get enough publicity.
This is far beyond red, white and blue, this is Beuys and his healing of the western mind. We both, Fung Lin and I love Beuys. With this post, I'm recalling, talk-thinking him over in the FSFS (fast slow fast slow, fung shark fin soup) project. He was a DΓΌsseldorf based artist, a ground shaker, a man with a head (hat). I like blood sausages and they like me. The following is a low brow approach to high brow art, or I'd say never use a bathtub - object by Beuys(very bad translation) to cool beer, or to rinse glasses. (Scandal at a museum in Germany, check original text in German).
clip from his Guggenheim exhibition NYC 1979-80
Beuys I like America and America likes me, his first appearance in the United States.
You got daddy Josef and mommy Louise of western art - two heavyweights. Great teachers both of them. When I lived in New York I should have attended Louise Bourgeoise's open house sessions. It was open to everyone. Mostly women went. F.L.
I watched the Beuys with the coyote. That was really great. We met Jack Burhnam at Les Levines place in the 70s. HL Hal Lum
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