{"product_id":"working-conditions-the-writings-of-hans-haacke-9780262034838","title":"Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke","description":"\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262034838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 7.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Hans Haacke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44683422236853,"sku":"9780262034838","price":29.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_979a39ab-1fdf-4d3d-b667-b000da62a89d.jpg?v=1727795821","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/working-conditions-the-writings-of-hans-haacke-9780262034838","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}