Hans Haacke's Double Agents

Art, Systems, and Parasitical Resistance
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-09233-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Art History

This is a pioneering book-length study of Hans Haacke, one of the most important living political artists. Hans Haacke’s Double Agents examines how his conceptual works function as "double agents"—operating simultaneously as art while critiquing and exposing the political, ecological, and institutional systems that frame them.

Spanning Haacke's entire career, this study analyzes both canonical works such as MoMA Poll (1970) and GERMANIA (1993) alongside understudied projects, including his contributions to the 1968 Mexico Cultural Olympiad, the Tenth Tokyo Biennial (1970), and Arte de Sistemas (1971) in Buenos Aires. Drawing on new primary sources and significant archival research, the book illuminates Haacke's connections to international contemporary art, exploring the networks he formed and tracing his influence on younger political artists as well as Latin American contemporaries. Like chemical reagents, Haacke's works catalyze reactions that prompt audiences to interrogate power relations within and beyond gallery walls. They reveal what lies behind the institutional façade—a particularly relevant approach given today's increasing calls for museum accountability and the “ethical turn” in the art world.

The book will appeal to academic libraries, scholars, curators, and students engaged with global contemporary art, twentieth-century art, political art, and museum studies, as well as artists and art students interested in institutional critique and socially engaged practice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tyson, John A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Double Agents and Double Agency  1. Resistance with “Playful Systems”  2. Un-American Art  3. Double Agents in Global Networks 4. Social Works: From Anti-Monuments to Art as Publicity Conclusion: An Expanded Field of Double Agents

Über Autor(innen)

John A. Tyson is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Prior to his current post he was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Departments of British and American Painting and Modern and American Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, USA). His earlier publications have analysed distinct aspects of Haacke’s oeuvre, the work of other conceptual artists, and Black American modern artists based in Washington, DC.