{"title":"Hans Haacke","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"working-conditions-book-hans-haacke-9780262034838","title":"Working Conditions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTexts by Hans Haacke that range from straightforward descriptions of his artworks to wide-ranging reflections on the relationship between art and politics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Haacke's art articulates the interdependence of multiple elements. An artwork is not merely an object but is also its context--the economic, social, and political conditions of the art world and the world at large. Among his best-known works are \u003ci\u003eMoMA-Poll\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), which polled museumgoers on their opinions about Nelson Rockefeller and the Nixon administration's Indochina policy; \u003ci\u003eGallery-Goers' Birthplace and Residence Profile \u003c\/i\u003e(1969), which canvassed visitors to the Howard Wise Gallery in Manhattan; and the famously canceled 1971 solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, which was meant to display, among other things, works on two New York real estate empires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume collects writings by Haacke that explain and document his practice. The texts, some of which have never before been published, run from straightforward descriptions to wide-ranging reflections and full-throated polemics. They include correspondence with MoMA and the Guggenheim and a letter refusing to represent the United States at the 1969 S o Paulo Biennial; the title piece, Working Conditions, which discusses corporate influence on the art world; Haacke's thinking about real-time social systems; and texts written for museum catalogs on various artworks, including \u003ci\u003eGERMANIA\u003c\/i\u003e, in the German Pavilion of the 1993 Venice Biennial; \u003ci\u003eDER BEV LKERUNG\u003c\/i\u003e (To the Population) of 2000 at the Berlin Reichstag; \u003ci\u003eMixed Messages\u003c\/i\u003e, an exhibition of objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum (2001); and \u003ci\u003eGift Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, unveiled on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49727499567377,"sku":"NGR9780262034838","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49915539947793,"sku":"CIN0262034832G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262034832.jpg?v=1751195370"},{"product_id":"hans-haacke-book-rachel-churner-9780262527934","title":"Hans Haacke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritical texts that span almost fifty years, mapping Haacke's progression from engagement with biological systems to interrogation of the social and economic underpinnings of art.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor five decades, the artist Hans Haacke (b. 1936) has created works that explore the social, political, and economic underpinnings of the production of art. His works make plain the hidden and not-so-hidden agendas of those--from Cartier to David Koch--who support art in the service of industry; they expose such inconvenient social and economic truths as the real estate holdings of Manhattan slumlords, and the attempts to whitewash support for the Nazi regime, apartheid, or the war on terror through museum donations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gathers interviews, difficult-to-find essays, cornerstones of institutional critique, and new critical approaches by writers that include Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Jack Burnham, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Leo Steinberg. Haacke's 1971 Guggenheim exhibition was famously canceled when the artist refused to withdraw several proposed works, including one exposing the business dealings of a Manhattan real estate company. This volume includes Edward Fry's catalog text for that show, as well as Walter Grasskamp's An Unpublished Text for an Unpainted Picture, redacted from an exhibition catalog in 1984 because of statements about the German collector Peter Ludwig. Other essays consider such topics as Haacke's controversial commission for the Reichstag; the activation of the spectator, from\u003ci\u003e Condensation Cube\u003c\/i\u003e to the Polls; the conceptual continuity of his practice with regard to General Systems Theory; and his delayed and problematic reception in both the United States and Europe. With contemporary essays and scholarly reassessments, this collection serves as an essential guide to critical thinking on Haacke's artistic practice, from the works of the 1960s that engage with physical and biological systems to his later interrogations of the social and economic underpinnings of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eYve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Jack Burnham, Douglas Crimp, Rosalyn Deutsche, Sam Durant, Edward F. 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Hans Haacke: Swiss Institute Visitors Poll documents the results of his longest ever poll work, which was conducted at Swiss Institute from June 21, 2018 to October 24, 2019. Newly commissioned for this publication, Haacke's featured essay outlines the history of his poll works, discussing the context and development of this body of work over four decades—all leading up to the Swiss Institute Visitors Poll. 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