Claudia Mesch

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Claudia Mesch
Mesch in 2016
Born	Ulrike Claudia Mesch
Academic work
Discipline	Art History Visual Culture
Institutions	Arizona State University

Claudia Mesch is an American art historian and critic who writes on developments in 20th-century and contemporary art and film. She is author of Joseph Beuys: The Reader; Modern Art at the Berlin Wall: Demarcating Culture in the Cold War Germanys; Art and Politics: a Small History of Art for Social Change since 1945; and the artist biography Joseph Beuys. Some of these titles have appeared in Chinese, French, Spanish and Italian translation. She is a recognized authority on visual culture after 1945.