Books by Claudia Mesch

A new critical biography of Joseph Beuys, arguably the most important and controversial German artist of the late twentieth century.

At the height of the Cold War, art produced in divided Germany contested the cultural demarcation of East and West. This title shows how a wide group of artists struggled to take visual art beyond the crude separations of the 'Iron Curtain', and to transcend the first global cultural divide of the twentieth century.