APPRECIATING CONTEMPORARY ART

Joseph Beuys: Fat Chair (Fettstuhl) 1964–1985

Masterpieces of modern/contemporary art #1

Jakob Zaaiman

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Counter Arts

5 min readJun 10, 2021

Colour photograph of Joseph Beuys’s Fat Chair (1964–1985) — Joseph Beuys ‘Fat Chair’ (1964–1985). Displayed through WikiArt under the Fair Use Rationale.

(The idea behind this series is to let the individual artworks speak directly to us from their own mysterious realm, rather than interpreting and ‘explaining them away’ in conventional terms.)

APPRECIATING CONTEMPORARY ART

Joseph Beuys: Fat Chair (Fettstuhl) 1964–1985

Masterpieces of modern/contemporary art #1

Written by Jakob Zaaiman