Alfredo Jaar
Studies on Happiness
$42.69
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
12 December 2023
Summary
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, Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans a deceptively simple question—”Are you happy?” Through private interviews, sidewalk polls, and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar’s three-year and seven-phase project, Studies on Happiness, addressed a furtive and fearful population living …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846382598 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846382599 |
| Author: | Edward A. Vazquez |
| Publisher: | Afterall Publishing |
| Imprint: | Afterall Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 12 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Afterall Books / One Work |
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About The Author
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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