Other, 40 x 33 cm.
©SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy Private Collection, photo: M HKA, 2017
Collection: Private Collection.
The plastic bag, filled with pamphlets was a means to spread the Organisation für direkte Demokratie durch Volksabstimmung (Organisation for Direct Democracy by Plebiscite) political ideas. According to the diagrams printed on the bag, real direct democracy in the form of referenda-based society sits in opposition to the majority party state. In 1977, a Dutch version of the edition was published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.
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Joseph Beuys was one of the most significant and influential artist of the twentieth century, who expanded the scope of art into t
> Exhibition: Joseph Beuys – Greetings from the Eurasian. M HKA, Antwerpen, 13 October 2017 - 21 January 2018.
>Joseph Beuys, So kann die Parteiendiktatur überwinden werden, 1971.Object, felt, plastic, printed plastic bag, 76 x 51.5 x 9.2 cm.