{"id":111,"date":"2006-09-24T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T19:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=111"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:00:55","slug":"joseph-beuys-in-america-energy-plan-for-the-western-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/156858007X\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61wLQqk6CL._SL1360_-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61wLQqk6CL._SL1360_-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61wLQqk6CL._SL1360_-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61wLQqk6CL._SL1360_-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61wLQqk6CL._SL1360_.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Joseph Beuys (1993)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Beuys, artist and scholar, was the most influential thinker among artists of the postwar generation. He inspired the avant-garde with his impassioned appeals for democratic anarchy, and actually founded a string of &#8216;free universities&#8217; across Europe. His credo was &#8220;Every man is an artist.&#8221; In 1974, he accepted an invitation to visit the U.S.  His travels too him to New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis, and he called the trip &#8211; fact an extended performance piece &#8211; &#8220;Energy Plan for the Western Man.&#8221; Beuys&#8217; writings have never before been collected in any language, and most of the interviews and speeches in <i>Joseph Beuys in America<\/i> have never before appeared in book form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Beuys (1993) Joseph Beuys, artist and scholar, was the most influential thinker among artists of the postwar generation. He inspired the avant-garde with his impassioned appeals for democratic anarchy, and actually founded a string of &#8216;free universities&#8217; across Europe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,8,39,18,5,32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-education","category-history","category-interview","category-myth","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}