Book Description
Long known for bringing trenchant analyses of sociopolitical structures into the museum, Hans Haacke has in the past exposed corporations who use art sponsorship to booster their image and slum landlords who hide behind diversified corporations. In his first exhibition in Vienna, the title of which gives its name to this book, Haacke tackles Austria's emotionally laden understanding of its own history and national identity. A larger discourse on "the culture of memory" weaves its way through selected historical works of Haacke's, including his 1999 project for the Reichstag, as well as through the artist's own writings, available here for the first time. Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Essays by Hans Haacke, Christian Kravagna, Heidemarie Uhl. Foreword by Dietrich Karner. 7.5 x 9.5 in. 19 color, 42 b/w illustrations English/German

About the Author
Hans Haacke was born in 1936 in Cologne and has lived in New York since 1965. His work is in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Centre George Pompidou, the Tate Modern, and the Stedlijk Museum, and has been exhibited in several Documentas, as well as the most recent Whitney Biennial.

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