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(BEUYS, JOSEPH). Tisdall, Caroline & Joseph Beuys. New York & London: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Thames & Hudson Inc., 1979. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/Near Fine. 288pp, 513 b&w illustrations. Published in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum's comprehensive 1979 retrospective of works by Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall's massive catalogue set the bar for documentation and scholarship on the pioneering late German artist. Focusing on the activity of Beuys' career, it contains extensive photographic documentation of actions, exhibitions, installations, and more. A most handsome example of the uncommon clothbound edition showing jus a touch of age-toning to the extremities of the textblock with the Guggenheim Museum's original three page press release, newspaper clippings regarding the exhibition from the "New York Times Sunday Magazine", "Soho Weekly News", and "Newsweek" along with Mr. Beuys' 1986 obituary from the "New York Times" laid in. 0-500-09136-6 Inventory Number: 025764