A printed tan cardboard square hand signed
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

In bright yellow block letters which are broken in places, as with letter stencils, the words “SONNE STATT REAGAN” are printed on a tan cardboard square. The words appear centered, stacked one above the other, filling the top half of the square, with a narrow margin all around. In the center of the lower half of the square, we see the artist’s name signed in cursive in black, above the date written as “19.4.82”.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.475.A-B
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title
"Sonne statt Reagan"
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
phonograph record, multiple
Date
1982
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218747

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Phonograph record in printed sleeve
Dimensions
18 × 18 cm (7 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
duration: 4860 sec. (81 min.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
Edition of 90
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 447, p. 342

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, and Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.475.A-B
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Victoria Bunting, "Fat, Sulphur, Chocolate, and Blood: Storage Preservation and a Condition Survey for a Large Collection of Works by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019

Verification Level

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