TY - JOUR
AU1 - Haacke, Hans
AB - Hans Haacke Der Bevolkerung (Fig. 1 ) Hans Haacke As an introduction to a recent installation in Berlin I would like to call to mind a work I produced for the Earth Art exhibition at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Cornell University in 1969 (Fig. 2). 1 believe this was the first exhibition in the US of so-called Earth Art. I piled soil in the centre of a room, seeded the mound with grass, and the seeds did what they do under halfway decent climactic conditions: they sprouted and grew. Therefore the title Grass Grows. At another occasion plants grew without assistance -from seeds the wind had blown into a bit of soil I had left on the roof where I had a studio in New York (from 1965 to 1984) (Fig. 3). 1 photographed it. And that was it: Bowery Seeds, vintage 1970. Obviously, such a process could not be exhibited in a gallery to be merchandized. It was strictly site-specific. A strange thing happened to me about two years ago. But before I get to that, let me review a bit of German history. When East and West Germany were joined Fig. I. Hans Haacke: DER 
TI - Der Bevölkerung
JF - Oxford Art Journal
DO - 10.1093/oxartj/24.2.127
DA - 2001-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/der-bev-lkerung-nOJ0cgRklb
SP - 127
EP - 143
VL - 24
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -