Working Conditions - The Writings of Hans Haacke - The MIT Press 2016

This 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 Sao Paulo Biennial; the title piece, "Working Conditions", wich addresses corporate influence on the art world; Haacke's thinking about "real-time social systems"; and texts written for museum catalogs on various artworks, including Germania, in the German Pavillon of the Venice Biennial (1993); Der Bevölkerung (To the Population) at the Berlin Reichstag (2000); Mixed Messages, an exhibition of objects from the V&A (2001) and Gift Horse, unveiled on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square (2015).
Edited by Alexander Alberro

The MIT Press - 2016
290p - EN - 18.5x23.5cm - hardcover in dust-jacket - very good condition