6 photographic negatives
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ARTIST ROOMS
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Show Your Wound
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
agriculture, gardening & fishing
architecture
cross
diseases and conditions
dissecting table
division
document - non-specific
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
fork
formal qualities
history
inscriptions
medical
objects
people
photographic
politics and society
politics: Germany, division, post-1945
reading, writing, printed matter
social comment
society
stamp
suffering
symbols and personifications
title of work
townscapes / man-made features
underpass
universal concepts
vulnerability
western society
wounded
relief 6 photographic negatives
Show Your Wound
support (top left): 238 × 330 mm
support (top right): 240 × 329 mm
support (centre left): 238 × 328 mm
support (centre right): 239 × 329 mm
support (lower left): 237 × 828 mm
support (lower right): 237 × 329 mm
frame: 1070 × 790 × 50 mm
<a href="/search?gid=999999788" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">ARTIST ROOMS</a>
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>'Show Your Wound' was an installation created by Beuys in 1974-75 in a bleak pedestrian underpass in Munich. Elements used there can be seen in these negatives; a pair of dissecting tables and the heads of two iron agricultural tools, mounted on wooden sticks. The wound was a recurring theme for the artist. On a personal level it referred to injuries he received in the Second World War, his breakdown in the 1950s and his heart attack in 1975. More generally, he used the idea to reference events in Germany's past and the divide between Eastern and Western cultures.</p>

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agriculture, gardening & fishing architecture cross diseases and conditions dissecting table division document - non-specific emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas fork formal qualities history inscriptions medical objects people photographic politics and society politics: Germany, division, post-1945 reading, writing, printed matter social comment society stamp suffering symbols and personifications title of work townscapes / man-made features underpass universal concepts vulnerability western society wounded