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"On January 9, 1974, Joseph BEUYS, together with Klaus STAECK and Gerhard Steidl, traveled to America for the first time. This trip was a performance planned down to the last detail in airplanes, cabs, hotels, universities and galleries, which was extensively documented with the camera. Individual images and photo series were created, as well as film stills for Dillinger and The Dead Eyes of London. Immediately after Joseph BEUYS returned to Germany, the material was evaluated for this book. However, the realization of the project was postponed again and again. Still in October 1985, shortly before his death, Joseph BEUYS determined the order of the photos and the pagination for this book. Now this extraordinary travel reportage appears in a new edition." (© Steidl Verlag, 2021)