Claudia Mesch

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.