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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Helmsboro County
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1990
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-03-30
Work Creator (display):
Hans Haacke (German, active in United States, born 1936)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
German painter and conceptual artist, active in the USA. He studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Kassel from 1956 to 1960, and during this period he painted pictures in a style close to Tachism, working on the visualization of movement. He also worked on examinations of colour fields, and in 196061 he spent a year in S. W. Hayter's Atelier 17 in Paris. While there he was brought into contact with the work of Yves Klein and the Zero group. He stayed in touch with Zero until 1965, and this was revealed in his work through a demonstration of optical phenomena that is more objective than romantic. In 19612 he received a Fulbright Scholarship and studied at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, spending the remainder of 1962 in New York. From 1963 to 1965 he had a number of teaching posts in Germany, first at Kettwig, then at Düsseldorf, but he returned to the USA in 1965 to live in New York and to take up a visiting lectureship at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. With his mirrorworks of 1961, Mirror Relief (1961; artist's col.) and the Battle of Reichenfels (1961; Paris, Bernard Aubertin priv. col.), Haacke freed himself from the object, and the water-containers done after 1962 are determined by technical factors, only formally recalling minimal art. The Rain Tower (1962; New York, Wilfried P. Cohen priv. col.) is the artist's first object that not only is a sensory and optical stimulation for the viewer but also has a practical use. He followed it with other 'real time systems', such as the condensation containers of 1963, which address themselves to natural laws and phenomena, not on a metaphorical or literary level but by causing them to occur in real time. At the beginning of the 1960s he made the acquaintance of the American artist and theorist J. W. Burnham, exchanging ideas with him about the 'systematic comprehension' of art.In the second half of the 1960s Haacke added new components to his physical systems in real time. Biological phenomena, as in Grass Cube (1967; see Haacke, 1972, pl. 57) and Chicks Hatching (1969; see Haacke, 1972, pl. 62), became 'unassisted ready-mades'. But unlike Duchamp's ready-mades, which lose their original function, Haacke's works were isolated phenomena which, although signed by the artist as works of art, still showed the real phenomenon in real time. In his political works after the late 1960s, Haacke transferred the principle of the real-time system to the analysis and exposure of social structures, as in Isolation of News Broadcasting Systems (1969). With the help of statistical investigations, questionnaires and his own research, he constructed 'social' systems in real time. The spectrum of the works extended from research into property relations in Manhattan, New York (leading to the cancellation of an exhibition by the Guggenheim Museum in 1971) (see Shapolsky et al., Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971, 1971) to the exposure of interconnections in artistic and cultural politics within the museum world: the exhibition of his Manet Project '74 was prevented by the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne. In his work Haacke touched on taboos in the social system, using his art to aim for the nerve-centre of the establishment. He cannot be bracketed in any artistic trend; his works from the 1960s consist, in a conceptual way, of text and photograph (for illustration see Conceptual art), while towards the end of the 1970s he painted large pictures, as did many contemporaries. After 1967 he taught in New York at Cooper Union, which gave him a full professorship in 1979. He was guest professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg in 1973 and at the Gesamthochschule in Essen in 1979.
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
advertisements
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advertisements
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Work Subject:
Senators
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Senators
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Work Subject:
smoking
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smoking
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Work Subject:
tobacco
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tobacco
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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Work Material and Technique (display):
silkscreen prints and photography on wood, cardboard and paper
Work Measurements (display):
176 cm (Length) x 17 cm (diameter)
Work Measurements (display):
77 cm (H) x 103 cm (W) x 121 cm (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
private collection
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-7148-4314-8
Image Source Reproduction page number:
356
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
357
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ISBN
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Hans Haacke
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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