Main entry:

Beuys, Joseph.

Title & Author:

Joseph Beuys : drawings after the Codices Madrid of Leonardo da Vinci / edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly ; with essays by Ann Temkin, Martin Kemp, Cornelia Lauf.

Publication:

New York : Dia Center for the Arts ; Düsseldorf : Richter Verlag, ©1998.

Description:

204 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Catalog of a work in the permanent collection of the Dia Center for the Arts.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202).
Preface and Acknowledgments / Micheal Govan -- Introduction / Lynne Cooke -- Joseph Beuys: Codices Madrid / Ann Temkin -- Leondardo-Beuys: The Notebook as Experimental Field / Martin Kemp -- Multiple, Original, and Artist's Book: The Codices Madrid / Cornelia Lauf -- Plates.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0944521347 (English ; hardcover)
9780944521342 (English ; hardcover)
3928762753 (German ; hardcover)
9783928762755 (German ; hardcover)

Subject:

Beuys, Joseph Sources Catalogs.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Manuscripts.
Beuys, Joseph.
Beuys, Joseph Sources Catalogues.
Léonard, de Vinci, 1452-1519 Manuscrits.
Beuys, Joseph Et Léonard de Vinci.
Léonard, de Vinci, 1452-1519 Influence.
Beuys, Joseph Catalogues.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Biblioteca Nacional (Spain). Manuscript. 8936-8937 Influence Catalogs.
Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.) Catalogs.
Dia Center for the Arts.
Biblioteca Nacional (Espagne). Manuscrit. 8936-8937 Influence.
Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.) Catalogues.
Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.)
Drawing New York (State) New York Catalogs.
Dessin New York (État) New York Catalogues.
Drawing
History Sources
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

Catalog
Catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Manuscripts
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Cooke, Lynne.
Kelly, Karen J., 1964-
Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.)
Biblioteca Nacional (Spain). Manuscript. 8936-8937.

Drawings after the Codices Madrid of Leonardo da Vinci

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233582
Call No.: N44.B566 B4 1998
Status: Available