Hans Haacke und Pierre Huyghe Non-Human Living Sculptures seit den 1960er-Jahren

• Main Author: Ströbele, Ursula
• Format: eBook
• Language: English; German
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2024
• Series: Schriftenreihe des Studienzentrums zur Moderne – Bibliothek Herzog Franz von Bayern am Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
• Subjects: 20th century; 21st century; art and ecology; contemporary art; Hans Haacke; History of art; Individual artists, art monographs; Non-graphic and electronic art forms; Non-Human Living Sculptures; Pierre Huyghe; Public art; Sculpture; temporary art works; The Arts; The Arts: art forms; The arts: general topics; The Arts: techniques and principles; The Arts: treatments and subjects
• ISBN: 9783111027111; 3111027155; 3111027112; 9783111027159
• DOI: 10.1515/978311102715

Since the 1960s, artists have questioned the traditional idea of opposition between art and nature. They have incorporated animals and plants as co-actors in their work, and so established a sculptural aesthetic of the living, which called for a redefinition of the sculptural genre. This study is the first to examine so-called Non-Human Living Sculptures using the examples of Hans Haacke and Pierre Huyghe. Following a re-reading of the historiography of modernist sculpture, the author re-evaluates and expands on existing theories in individual work analyses. She shows how Haacke’s real-time systems, determined by US systems theory, biology and cybernetics, as well as his rejection of the object aesthetic have shaped contemporary positions such as Huyghe’s situational-aesthetic works.