Out of print since 1999, the classic catalogue raisonna of Joseph Beuys's multiples is available again at last. Beuys, the most influential German--and perhaps the most influential European--artist of the postwar period, was born in 1921. He had planned to be a doctor, but following World War II he enrolled in the Dsseldorf Academy of Art. As a professor there in the early 1960s he encountered the influence of Fluxus and began to make and show the multiples--prints and boxes and other objects in editions--that became such a key part of his work. Those highlighted here include sleds, pieces of...

Kein anderer Teil im Gesamtwerk von Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986) verkrpert so direkt seinen basisdemokratischen Anspruch und hat so groe Popularitt errungen wie seine Auflagenobjekte und Multiples. Mit ihnen hat Beuys eine eigene Kunstform geschaffen: das technisch reproduzierbare Objekt als Ideentrger, als Vehikel zur Verbreitung komplexer Botschaften.