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Nature 434, 141 (10 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434141a; Published online 9 March 2005

Science in culture

Martin Kemp1

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The artist Joseph Beuys tried to lead his followers into a promised land of transformative imagination.

The Pied Piper of DüsseldorfShaman or charlatan? Genius or joker?