288 pp.; 4to; dark gray cloth and dust jacket; 513 illustrations in black & white including photographs and other reproductions, many full page. Trivial wear to corners; jacket with closed tear at top of spine, covered with clear tap on the inside of the jacket.

Each of the twenty-four sections of this important monograph takes its starting point in a major piece of sculpture, so central to the formulation of Beuys' work, and then extends into discussions of the themes which link the many fields of the artist's enormous output.