Kristine Stiles, 'Props For The Memory and Doing Wrong in the Work of Joseph Beuys'
No other artist of the twentieth century who engaged in war on the side of doing wrong has been as celebrated as German artist Joseph Beuys. In an unprecedented examination of the way Beuys' iconography relates to National Socialism, Stiles suggests that Beuys used his art as 'a prop for the memory' of the Third Reich. Dr. Kristine Stiles is an artist and the France Family Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She specializes in performance and experimental art, and is internationally recognized for her scholarship on destruction, violence, and trauma. She has received many fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim and a Fulbright.