Date:         Sun, 26 May 96 22:57:02 MEZ
From: Heiko Recktenwald <UZS106-AT-IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Subject:      Re:


On Sun, 26 May 1996 16:36:15 -0400 Ostrow/Kaneda said:
>
>portrayed hismself as a modern day shaman setting out to use art to heal
>society. Hitler also saw himself as healing society and saw themselves as
>fulfilling some mystical and mythical destiny. Such an appeal if blieved or
>not seems to me decidely dangerous.

I dont think anybody believed in Beuys here.. He had a theory of
money that couldnt be understood or taken seriously and a wish
for "more democracy". There was nothing totalitarian about him


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