Joseph Beuys was a prominent figure in the Green – Alternative movement in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. He stressed the performance aspect of art coupled with piety and respect for flora and fauna as well as for humans He created fantastic art forms beyond the imagination of an ordinary viewer. Many of us ay find his art idiosyncratic; but we mast try to understand it as it is about relations among all living beings including the Nature.

The 1960s and 1970s were the decades that changed the whole outlook of may young people on arts and location of the recipient. Every common viewer could be an artist. Also the artist resisted the ‘modernism’ of the kind that commodified the art and upheld the aesthetic of impermanence. The work/art once performed had to disappear for ever so that the market could not lay hands on it. There was an upsurge of happenings, spectacles, oral poetry, dance-theatre etc. where sensual immediacy mattered the most. Strong ‘presentation’ in order to replace ‘representation’ was the motto of these artists. Beuys was one of them.

He wanted to create a ‘social sculpture’ for the coyote, a small preairy wolf known for loud housing. According to the world book dictionary (1990) a coyote is a cunning malicious figure in the myths of many North American Indian tribes. Beuys differs strongly from the connotations if the dictionary meaning. He felt the American Indians worshiped the coyote and had raised him to the status of a deity. The white Americans have demeaned the figure. The coyote of American mythology is a symbol of the energy of transformation; it can change its physical condition into spiritual and vice-a-versa. The white Americans call a smuggler or a exploiter of illegal immigrants a coyote. As a white man himself Beuys was determined to set this injustice right with his ‘Energy Plan for the Western Man’. Foe Beuys man is primarily a spiritual being; hence he could regain the contact to all the invisible energies or create new energies. The immigration of the Europeans to the new world of America cold have been the beginning of a new spiritual age but the Europeans employed their ingenuity for selfish individualism. They failed miserably to understand that an individual’s freedom ends where the freedom of the other, not only of the other human but of other life forms, starts.