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Books : Arts & Photography : Artists, A-Z : ( G-I ) : Haacke, Hans
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Born in Cologne in 1936 and based in New York since 1965, Haacke's strong political, cultural and social concerns are reflected in his installations, texts and sculptures. Throughout his fifty-year career Haacke has frequently changed the presentation of his art to get his message across. Often borrowing from non-art sources such as corporate advertising, questionnaires or scientific experimentation, Haacke is probably the most successful and best-known late twentieth-century artist to create a political art that manages to hit its mark with succinct elegance. Haacke sometimes works almost as a sleuth-like reporter, uncovering museum politics in his art. This practice has famously led on occasion to museum officials cancelling his exhibitions. For example, his 1971 one-person show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, was cancelled in response to his proposal to present the questionable real estate dealings of several New York companies. Though he began as a painter in the late 1950s, Hans Haacke soon began to make works such as Raintower (1962) which drew on natural energies and forces. Subsequent works, for example the opinion-based MOMA-Poll (1970), encouraged active audience participation. The artist is particularly admired for his research into the art world's hidden economies and politics, as well as into repressed histories of places and people. The resulting artworks (such as his project for the Reichstag in Berlin, Der Bevolkerung [To The Population, 1999]) have often drawn immense controversy. Haacke is a unique figure in post-war art, and his work has touched on such diverse movements as Conceptual, Pop, Minimal and Land art. His integrity as well as the formal innovations of his art have proven hugely influential for many generations of contemporary artists. Haacke has presented solo exhibitions in such museums as the Tate Gallery, London (1984); the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and tour (1986); and the Musee nationale d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1989), among others. Haacke has participated in such landmark group exhibitions as 'When Attitudes Become Form', Kunsthalle Bern, and tour (1969), and 'Information' at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970). He has been featured in four Documentas, Kassel (1972, 1982, 1987 and 1997), both 'Skulptur. Projekte in Munster' exhibitions (1987 and 1997), and three Venice Biennales (1976, 1978 and 1993).
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Artwork by Hans Haacke.
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Title: Hans Haacke et Jochen Gerz a Berlin (Der Bevolkerung; Das Geld, die Liebe, der Tod, die Freiheit - Was zahlt am Ende) (expositions).
Author: Maite Vissault
Publication: Etc. Montreal (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: Revue d'Art Contemporain Etc. Inc.
Issue: 52 Page: 28-32
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A survey of Haacke's recent work covering his controversial sculptures, collages, and temporary installations.
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Long known for bringing trenchant analyses of sociopolitical structures into the museum, Hans Haacke has in the past exposed corporations who use art sponsorship to booster their image and slum landlords who hide behind diversified corporations. In his first exhibition in Vienna, the title of which gives its name to this book, Haacke tackles Austria's emotionally laden understanding of its own history and national identity. A larger discourse on "the culture of memory" weaves its way through selected historical works of Haacke's, including his 1999 project for the Reichstag, as well as through the artist's own writings, available here for the first time.
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This digital document is an article from Artforum International, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 629 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Hans Haacke: Paula Cooper Gallery.
Author: Jan Avgikos
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 44 Issue: 6 Page: 208(1)
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For the past fifteen years, Hans Haacke's work has been concerned with issues that are at the core of postmodern investigations - the nature of art as institution, the authorship of the artist, the social behavior of the art world, the network of cultural policies such as the role and function of the museum, the critic, and the public, and many other sociological problems.
This book is based on a major retrospective exhibition of Haacke's work, the first in an American museum. The works selected show the different ways in which he has addressed the social and political concerns affecting art production. By laying bare the explicit functioning and interconnectedness of systems of finance, social organization, and representations, Haacke demonstrates how these employ art and other forms of presentation and representation as formalized means of power and coercion. In this important respect, his work has set a precedent for that of many younger, social concerned artists.
A group of significant essays by Leo Steinberg, Fredric Jameson, Rosalyn Deutsche, and an introduction and overview by Brian Wallis place Haacke's work in a larger social and aesthetic context.
Hans Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1936 and, since 1967, has taught at the Cooper Union in New York. Earlier retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, the Tate Gallery, London, and museums in Berlin and Bern. His work has also been included in many major international group exhibitions, including the Tokyo Biennal, the Venice Biennale, and Documenta. Brian Wallis is Adjunct Curator at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and editor of Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation and of the magazine Wedge. Hans Haacke is copublished with The New Museum of Contemporary Art and distributed by The MIT Press.
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1670 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Notes & Comments: April 2000.
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 18 Issue: 8 Page: 1
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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on April 1, 1996. The length of the article is 372 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: (Obra social): Hans Haacke.
Publication: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: Parachute Contemporary Art
Issue: 82 Page: 66
Article Type: Book Review
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Title: Rose is a rose is a rose: Gregory Sholette on Hans Haacke's memorial to Rosa Luxemburg.(ON SITE)(Column)
Author: Gregory Sholette
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 45 Issue: 3 Page: 99(2)
Article Type: Column
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