Scottish Symphony / Requiem of Art | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.284.A-C
People: Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Henning Christiansen, Danish (Copenhagen, Denmark 1932 - 2008)
Published by Edition Schellmann
Title: Scottish Symphony / Requiem of Art
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Schottische Symphonie / Requiem of Art
Classification: Multiples
Work Type: multiple, phonograph record
Date: 1986
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/219129

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Two phonograph records in paper sleeves, printed album cover
Dimensions: cover: 31.5 × 31.5 × 1 cm (12 3/8 × 12 3/8 × 3/8 in.)
duration: 2640 sec. (44 min.)
duration: 2220 sec. (37 min.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: Edition of 800
Standard Reference Number: Schellmann 83, p. 118

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.284.A-C
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: 1995.284.A: Beuys and Christiansen: "Schottische Symphonie" (aus "Celtic") -- phonograph record in paper sleeve; 2nd edition, 800 copies, 90 + XXX copies for the portfolio "fuer Joseph Beuys" with scores by Henning Christiansen, published by Galerie Bernd Klueser, Edition Schellmann, Munich
1995.284.B: Christiansen: "Requiem of Art, op/ 50" (aus "Celtic") "fluxorum organum II" -- phonograph record in paper sleeve
1995.284.C: double-album cover (photomechanically reproduced, black ink on white wove paper))

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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

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