In this book, leading social thinker Pierre Bourdieu and the artist Hans Haacke discuss contemporary art and the relations between art, politics and society. Their dialogue ranges widely from censorship and obscenity to the social conditions of artistic creativity, and focusses on the central themes in the work of both authors.
Paperback
Status
Available
Edition
First
Edition
ISBN
9780745615226
ISBN10
0745615228
Publication Dates ROW:
May 1995
Publication Dates US:
Publication Dates Aus & NZ:
Format
210 x 149 mm
,
5.87 x 8.27 in
Pages
144
pages
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"Some of the best - and funniest - passages in the book are Haacke's Scarfe-like sketches of the denizens of
mondo biennale."
Times Literary Supplement
Publisher's Note.
List of Hans Haacke's works.
Foreword.
1. Helmsboro Country.
2. Sponsors who know the tune.
3. Creating a sensation.
4. Real simulacra.
5. The crusaders of 'high culture'.
6. Defense of the West and the return of absolutism.
7. In the state's noose.
8. A politics of form.
9. Plain speaking.
10. Too Good to be True (by Pierre Bourdieu).
11. Gondola! Gondola! (by Hans Haacke).
Pierre Bourdieu was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France
Hans Haacke is a contemporary visual artist.
