“The Brain of Europe,” 1974.
Photographer
Caroline Tisdall
Artist
Joseph Beuys
(1921 - 1986)
Date2021
MediumArchival monoprint
Dimensions71 × 47 cm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Photograph © Caroline Tisdall.
Object number2120
DescriptionBeuys referred to Ireland as “the Brain of Europe”, an “imagination organ” that could receive and generate new ideas. His blackboard of the same name is based on a diagram of a circle representing the range of political opinion in Ireland that Caroline Tisdall originally sketched for Beuys. The Brain of Europe formed the centre of Hearth I (Feuerstatte), an installation at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, in 1975. He optimistically expressed the range of positions in Northern Ireland as “unity in diversity,” a metaphor he saw echoed in the basalt rocks of the Giant’s Causeway.On View
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