sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ: ʜᴀɴs ʜᴀᴀᴄᴋᴇ, ɴᴇᴡs, 1969

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             Early Career

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born in Cologne, Germany in 1936, few years before WWII

1956-1960 - study at Staatliche Werkakademie in town of

Kassel, Germany

student of Stanley William Hayter, English painter, printmaker

1961-1962 studied on Fulbright grant at Tyler School of

Art at Temple University in Philadelphia

1965 - move to NY, live since

1967-2002 teaching position at Cooper Union

relatively reclusive, believe work should stand on its own

Condensation Cube (1963-1965) - plexiglas cube filled

with water that responds to external conditions

context affect artwork's appearance

presage claims made in Joseph Kosuth's writings about

Conceptualism

work is explicitly political

involved with Art Worker's Coalition, formed in 1969 to protest

Vietnam War, advocate for Civil Right's movement, right for all

artists to be represented

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               Analysis

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teleprinter connected to live feed of political and economic news

transmitted from wire services

bore logo of United Press International

long, narrow spools of paper, cut and affix to gallery walls

later installations allow paper to pile on floor

1969 exhibition at Howard Wise Gallery in NY

large group exhibition Prospect  in Dusseldorf, Germany

telex machine installed in Dusseldorf Kunsthalle communicate

news by German press agency DPA

display for 1 day, on 3rd day store in plexiglas containers

1970 - included in show titled Software-Information Technology:

Its New Meaning for Art at New York Jewish Museum

aim to bring outside world directly into gallery

through architectural space: Judd, LeWitt

didactic treatment of language: Kosuth

depiction of everyday: Ruscha

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      Institutional Critique

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Information at MoMA - invite visitors to vote on political issue

Rockefeller influence politics, major art donors

Gov Nelson Rockefeller serve as trustee, treasure, president

of Museum's board.

subsequent works focus on link between art institutions, arts

patrons, political and economic systems that are unjust

work censored a number of times

solo exhibition at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum cancelled

in 1971

Thomas Messer, director of Guggenheim thought politics and

art should stay separate

view battled by artists ;ike Haacke, Ringgold, Rosler, who 

believed art should address urgent political issues of the day