Foreword to What is Art? Conversations with Joseph Beuys. Edited with essays by Volker Harlan.

Read Shelley Sacks’ Forward to her translation* of this extended conversation between Joseph Beuys and Volker Harlan that offers a widened view of the aesthetic and insights into the field of social sculpture.

Extract from Sacks’ Foreword:
”This is a book about seeing and hearing: seeing beyond the retinal and hearing as integral to social sculpture. It is a book that opens up territory often considered to be esoteric or mystical, revealing it to be concrete, actual and intimately involved in all the actions and processes of our everyday lives.”

Published in the UK by Clairview Books, 22 November 2004. 128pp. ISBN 9781905570072