When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they’re decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
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| Birth: | 12th August, 1936 |
| Nationality: | American, German |
| Profession: | Artist, Professor |
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Hans Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He is a German-American artist. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. From 1961 to 1962 he studied on a Fulbright grant at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. From 1967 to 2002 he was a professor at the Cooper Union in New York City. He currently lives and works in New York.
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