What Is Art?: Conversation with Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys stated in a letter to Manfred Schradi (Oct. 21, 1971):

"I know that from him [Rudolf Steiner] that a mission was given to me to gradually remove people's alienation and mistrust toward the supersensible through my means. In political thinking--the field I have to be working on daily--it is a matter of realizing the Threefold Social Order as quickly as possible."

Joseph Beuys's work continues to influence and inspire artists and thinkers around the world--in areas from organizati...