A group of drawings, part of the "raw material" for a multiple that the German artist Joseph Beuys had produced four years earlier, was purchased by Dia Center for the Arts in 1979. One of a number of major pieces in Dia's collection by this seminal postwar German artist, it forms the object of study and documetation in this publication.

Joseph Beuys: Drawings After the Codices Madrid of Leonardo Da Vinci, and Sculpture at Dia:Chelsea