{"title":"Lotar Baumgarten","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"interfunktionen-no-7-special-edition","title":"Interfunktionen No. 7 [Special edition]","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the cover of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInterfunktionen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 7 (1971) is a famous photographic documentation of Joseph Beuys’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCeltic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e performance in Basel on April 5, 1971. Like many of his action works, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCeltic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e combined ritualized movements, symbolic gestures, and self-mythologizing props, including beeswax, a bottle of gelatin, and a tin watering can. The choice of this image for the cover is particularly interesting given the magazine’s recurrent interest in the shaman-artist’s potential to heal a traumatized postwar society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFounded by the German psychologist Friedrich Wolfram Heubach and later edited by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInterfunktionen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ewas an interdisciplinary art journal based in Cologne. Between 1968 and 1975, it published twelve issues, establishing itself as one of the most important European art magazines to emerge in the postwar period. It promoted new artistic ideas in opposition to the prevailing international conception of “art-as-commodity”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis special issue of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInterfunktionen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e7 is punctuated by original photographic prints by Peter Hutchinson and Dan Graham, as well as a handwritten intervention in blue ink by Joseph Beuys. Otherwise, its content corresponds to that of the regular edition, bringing into focus works by Michael Heizer (listed as “Mike Heizer”), Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Long, Robert Smithson, Lothar Baumgarten, Will Insley, Jürgen Kramer, and Panamarenko, alongside those of Hutchinson, Graham, and Beuys. Halfway through the issue, three theoretical contributions appear: Buckminster Fuller’s “Pirated Script,” Nam June Paik’s “Expanded Education for the Paperless Society,” and Dan Graham’s “Homes for America.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe psychologically driven approach developed by Friedrich Wolfram Heubach allowed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInterfunktionen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to move beyond the editorial approaches of other art magazines, focusing not only on action art, land art, Fluxus-adjacent practices, and conceptual art, but also on the mechanisms through which such works were received, including the mystique surrounding Joseph Beuys.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55221157691731,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4692.png?v=1791276565"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/lotar-baumgarten.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}