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5 unusual facts about Hans Haacke

Consciousness Industry

Hans Haacke elaborates on the consciousness industry as it applies to the arts in a wider system of production, distribution, and consumption.

Hans Haacke

In 1974, Haacke submitted another proposal that was subsequently rejected for an exhibition at the Wallraf-Richartz museum in Cologne.

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In 1978 Haacke had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England, that included the new work A Breed Apart, which made explicit criticism of the state-owned British Leyland for exporting vehicles for police and military use to apartheid South Africa.

Pierre Bourdieu

with Hans Haacke, Free Exchange, Stanford University Press, 1995.

Push poll

Sometimes cited as an early example of push-polling is an interactive artistic work by American artist Hans Haacke.