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Hans Haacke,Framing and Being Framed: 7 Works, 1970–75 (English)
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Haacke’s display of the provenance of Manet’s Bunch of Asparagus (1880) for “PROJEKT ’74“ in Cologne is another instance of cultural hierarchies revealing themselves through clumsy attempts by officials to suppress imagined inflammatory information, in this case irony is piled upon irony. The Director of the Museum, in his frantic attempts to prevent the provenance from being shown, thus focussing attention on the well-known background of one of the Cologne Wallraf-Richartz-Museum’s chief benefactors, Herman J. Abs, instigated a nation-wide controversy in the West German newspapers.The concluding irony is that, as Haacke and others suspect, the banker Herman J. Abs could not have cared less. The elegance of Haacke’s best political works lies in their indirection, their ability to reveal without polemics or political slogans. (English)
December 1976
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176-180
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