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Free exchange / Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Cambridge : Polity Press, 1995.Description: 144 S : Ill ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0745615228 (pbk.)
  • 9780745615226 (pbk.)
DDC classification:
  • 700.103 BOU

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

An open dailogue between Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke on contemporary art and culture. Discussing topics such as censorship, obscenity to the social conditions of artistic creativity. Controversies surrounding the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano, debates concerning multiculturalism and ethnic diversity are covered.

Originaltitel: Libre-échange.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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
  • 11 Gondola! Gondola! (by

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Pierre Bourdieu was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France

Hans Haacke is a contemporary visual artist.

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