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Haacke-ing the System

Claire Flannery
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is a study of the link between art and politics, more specifically art and anarchy. Hans Haacke was the artist chosen to showcase this relationship, following MOMA's 1971 withdrawal of their offer to exhibit his work, cited as one of the most significant events in twentieth century art. The author focuses on the effect that politics has on our interpretation and acceptance of art, and the art that fights to free the viewer form this inherent system. The art itself is used to critique power during the 1960s and early 1970s, and there is a comparison bewteen the development of anarchism and art within this time frame. The dissertation studies the changing experience of art, from predominantly visual Pop Art to an increasingly conceptual art. Finally the author discussed the final repressive qualities of this concpetual art, and Haacke's revolutionary artistic anarchy.

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