Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama

by Chris Thompson

Book Overview

Felt provides a nonlinear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph Beuys appears as an uneasy shaman. Centered on a highly publicized yet famously inconclusive 1982 meeting between Beuys and the Dalai Lama, arranged by the Dutch artist Louwrien Wijers, Chris Thompson explores the interconnections among Beuys, the Fluxus movement, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816653550
• ISBN13: 9780816653553
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"