Haacke's Helmsboro

Author

Heartney, Eleanor

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art in America. 1990, Num. 5, Vol. 78, 53, 1 ill.

ISSN

0004-3214

Abstract (en)

Describes Hans Haacke's 1990 mixed media sculpture, Helmsboro Country, a huge cigarette pack based on the Marlboro design. Notes the ironies and layers of meaning packed into the work, which aims to expose the interrelationships between United States Senator Jesse Helms, the Philip Morris Tobacco Company, and art patronage, particularly in light of Helms's recent attack on the National Endowment for the Arts for funding obscene art.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Sculpture -- United States
• Haacke, Hans Christoph, b.1936
• Sculpture
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Helms, Jesse, b.1921
• Helmsboro Country
• Patronage
• National Endowment for the Arts!!Washington, DC (USA)
• Art
• Iconography
• Obscenity

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Sculpture -- États-Unis
• Haacke, Hans Christoph, n.1936
• Sculpture
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Helms, Jesse, n.1921
• Helmsboro Country
• Mécénat
• National Endowment for the Arts!!Washington, DC (USA)
• Art
• Iconographie
• Obscénité

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920701-00426435

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