Alfredo Jaar
Studies on Happiness
(Sprache: Englisch)
A richly illustrated survey of Alfredo Jaar’s Studies on Happiness (1979–1981) and its deep political stakes in the historical context of Chile’s neoliberal transition.
Between 1979 and 1981, a young artist and architecture school dropout named...
Between 1979 and 1981, a young artist and architecture school dropout named...
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A richly illustrated survey of Alfredo Jaar’s Studies on Happiness (1979–1981) and its deep political stakes in the historical context of Chile’s neoliberal transition.Between 1979 and 1981, a young artist and architecture school dropout named Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans the deceptively simple question: "Are you happy?" Including private interviews, sidewalk polls, and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar’s two-year and seven-phase project, Studies on Happiness, addressed a country in transition, as a newly adopted constitution remade Chile through privatization and other neoliberal reforms. Jaar’s first major artwork has been imprecisely discussed in the monographic literature on the artist and rarely mentioned in studies of Chilean art after 1973.
Edward Vazquez contextualizes Jaar’s Studies on Happiness within his early production and places his practice within the Chilean art world, thus reinstating the project’s historical embeddedness and the deep political stakes of its sociality. The work’s marginality is a strength: its minor status in the period and in Jaar’s oeuvre allow it an historical freedom in engaging Chilean culture under Augusto Pinochet and provides a wedge to realign current interpretations of Chilean art and hemispheric conceptualism with the openness central to Jaar’s project.
Autoren-Porträt von Edward A. Vazquez
Edward A. Vazquez is associate professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College. A scholar of modern and contemporary art, he is interested in the terms of materiality and everyday processes of art making in the wake of conceptual art in Europe and the Americas. He is the author of Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculpture (2017) and his writings have appeared in Art Journal, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, caa.reviews, and in edited volumes and exhibition catalogues.
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- Autor: Edward A. Vazquez
- 2023, 152 Seiten, 48 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 15,2 x 21,6 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: The MIT Press
- ISBN-10: 1846382599
- ISBN-13: 9781846382598
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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