Joseph Beuys
Subtitle: Zeichnungen zu den beiden 1965 wiederentdeckten Skizzenbüchern "Codices Madrid" von Leonardo da Vinci
By: Herausgegeben von Lynne Cooke und Karen Kelly ; mit Texten von Ann Temkin, Martin Kemp, Cornelia Lauf.
Contributors: Cooke, Lynne.; Kelly, Karen.; Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Richter Verlag; Dia Center for the Arts
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Düsseldorf; New York
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Beuys, Joseph -- Sources -- Catalogs.; Leonardo, -- da Vinci, -- 1452-1519 -- Manuscripts.; Biblioteca Nacional (Spain) -- Influence -- Catalogs.; Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.) -- Catalogs.; Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs.
Other titles: Zeichnungen zu den beiden 1965 wiederentdeckten Skizzenbüchern "Codices Madrid" von Leonardo da Vinci
Description: "The Codices Madrid drawings come from a larger group that Beuys made during 1974 for a multiple, a facsimile sketchbook to be printed in a limited edition of one thousand copies. First broached in 1972 jointly by a German art dealer and a museum director, the project was conceived as a response to the recent rediscovery, in a library in Madrid where they had long been misfiled, of two "lost" notebooks by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Beuys made numerous studies and sketches in anticipation of his book, which was to be closely modeled on Leonardo's in terms of its size. Its cover, however, significantly departed from that of its predecessor, for Beuys used a design replicating an American schoolbook. With the crop marks for publication readily visible on many sheets, these drawings offer a comprehensive recapitulation and re-examination of motifs, ideas, and concepts that had centrally informed his aesthetic and practice over the previous twenty-five years." -- Excerpt from Introduction on the Dia Center for the Arts website (see link).

A group of drawings, part of the "raw material" for a multiple that the German artist Joseph Beuys had produced four years earlier, was purchased by Dia Center for the Arts in 1979. One of a number of major pieces in Dia's collection by this seminal postwar German artist, it forms the object of study and documentation in this publication. Also available in German.
Notes: Catalog of a work in the permanent collection of the Dia Center for the Arts.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-203).