Photograph, black and white, on canvas with oil paint
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Coyote II
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
abstract concepts
agriculture, gardening & fishing
arts
blanket
contemporary society
crook
cross
destruction
documentary
emotional states and conditions
emotions, concepts and ideas
energy - positive and negative symbols
event: action, Joseph Beuys, ‘I like America and America Likes Me’, René Block Gallery, New York, 1974
felt
fine arts and music
formal qualities
furnishings
heating and lighting
history
inscriptions
instrument, triangle
miscellaneous
objects
protection - felt
social comment
society
survival
symbols and personifications
torch
universal concepts
western society
painting photograph black white canvas oil paint
4 July 2009 – 27 September 2009
2009-09-27
4 July 2009 – 27 September 2009
2009-09-27
2009-07-04
De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill on Sea, UK)
http://www.dlwp.com/
2009-07-04
ARTIST ROOMS 2009: Joseph Beuys
Loan-out
22 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
22 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
2011-10-22
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (Cardiff, UK)
2011-10-22
ARTIST ROOMS 2011: Joseph Beuys
Loan-out
1 May 2012 – 31 October 2012
2012-10-31
1 May 2012 – 31 October 2012
2012-10-31
2012-05-01
The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel)
http://www.imj.org.il
2012-05-01
Joseph Beuys - Tadeusz Kantor: Memory
Loan-out
5 June 2015 – 6 September 2015
2015-09-06
5 June 2015 – 6 September 2015
2015-09-06
2015-06-05
Timespan (Sutherland, UK)
http://www.timespan.org.uk/
2015-06-05
ARTIST ROOMS 2015: Joseph Beuys
Loan-out
Coyote II
support: 455 × 703 mm
frame: 662 × 909 × 85 mm
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Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>This is one of a pair of images showing Beuys's 1974 'action' 'I Like America and America Likes Me'. The 'action' began as soon as the artist landed in America. He was wrapped in felt at the airport, and driven in an ambulance to René Block's Manhattan gallery. He spent three days in the gallery space with a coyote before being driven straight back to the airport and flown home. The coyote is sacred to Native Americans, and represented an aspect of the country's past that Beuys liked. This image shows items the artist used in the 'action'. The felt blanket and torch represent survival, he used the triangle to make music and lent on the shepherd's crook.</p>

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abstract concepts agriculture, gardening & fishing arts blanket contemporary society crook cross destruction documentary emotional states and conditions emotions, concepts and ideas energy - positive and negative symbols event: action, Joseph Beuys, ‘I like America and America Likes Me’, René Block Gallery, New York, 1974 felt fine arts and music formal qualities furnishings heating and lighting history inscriptions instrument, triangle miscellaneous objects protection - felt social comment society survival symbols and personifications torch universal concepts western society