{"product_id":"alfredo-jaar-studies-on-happiness-9781846382598","title":"Alfredo Jaar: Studies on Happiness","description":"\u003cb\u003eA richly illustrated survey of Alfredo Jaar's \u003ci\u003eStudies on Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e (1979-1981) and its deep political stakes in the historical context of Chile's neoliberal transition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetween 1979 and 1981, a young artist and architecture school dropout named Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans the deceptively simple question: \"Are you happy?\" Including private interviews, sidewalk polls, and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar's two-year and seven-phase project, \u003ci\u003eStudies on Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e, addressed a country in transition, as a newly adopted constitution remade Chile through privatization and other neoliberal reforms. Jaar's first major artwork has been imprecisely discussed in the monographic literature on the artist and rarely mentioned in studies of Chilean art after 1973. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdward Vazquez contextualizes Jaar's \u003ci\u003eStudies on Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e within his early production and places his practice within the Chilean art world, thus reinstating the project's historical embeddedness and the deep political stakes of its sociality. The work's marginality is a strength: its minor status in the period and in Jaar's oeuvre allow it an historical freedom in engaging Chilean culture under Augusto Pinochet and provides a wedge to realign current interpretations of Chilean art and hemispheric conceptualism with the openness central to Jaar's project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Afterall Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846382598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Edward A. Vazquez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096306286773,"sku":"9781846382598","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b62c8c4f-70ac-4cdf-89b8-219197664dfd.jpg?v=1692805110","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alfredo-jaar-studies-on-happiness-9781846382598","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}