Der Ganze Riemen

Köln: Walther König, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very good+ condition. Large Quarto. 1047pp. Original green-gray cloth with black lettering on covers and spine. Green-gray endpapers. Marginalia. Monumental work on "The 'Gig' of Joseph Beuys as a Teacher - Chronology of Events at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf 1966-1972. Issued by the Hesse State Museum Darmstadt.

The breadth of Joseph Beuys' teachings and political actions documented, commented on and illustrated with reproductions of photographs, b/w and color with some full page, one with manual red stamp applied, and documents throughout,. Account of fourteen semesters at the Academy starting in the Summer of 1966 with a trial class.

Includes the so-called Ringgesprächs (Ring Conversations, to be continued until No. 18, Winter 68/69) entitled: Service Pistol and Bear Bones (Dienstpistole und Bärenknochen), the Summer of 1967 with the class on 'The Smile of the Mona Lisa,' the founding of the German Student Party.

The book is arranged chronologically and includes topics like 'The Grail,' art and sovereignty, exhibition reports or preparations, the Documenta 4, the Andy Warhol Vibration, Fluxus Zone West, the controversy over Beuys' employment at the Academy, poetry classes, the closing of the Academy in 1969, the background of the peculiar employment of Joseph Beuys at the Academy, the Frankfurt Experimenta 3, the reopening of the Academy, Pangenese, the Group Yiup, the Space Installation, the Scottish Symphony, TV at the Beuys class (Winter 1970/71), the termination with immediate effect and the lawsuit Beuys vs. State of North Rhine Westfalia, among others. Contains Index of persons, picture and photo credits.

Binding with very light wear and minor discoloration of a few spots of front cover. Block slightly wavy at top edge.