A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry. - Hans Haacke
Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.
- Hans Haacke
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cult… - Hans Haacke
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cult…
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that… - Hans Haacke
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that…
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi. - Hans Haacke
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psy… - Hans Haacke
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psy…
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it. - Hans Haacke
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that. - Hans Haacke
Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.
In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations… - Hans Haacke
In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations…
Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do. - Hans Haacke
Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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