Vazquez, Edward A., author.

Alfredo Jaar : studies on happiness / by Edward A. Vazquez.

London : Afterall Books, 2023.

1 online resource (96 pages) : illustrations (some colour).

One work

"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 under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. It also spoke to a country in transition, as a newly adopted constitution remade Chile through privatisation and other neoliberal reforms. In its varied interventions and direct mode of address, Studies on Happiness functioned as a feedback device meant to catalyse a critical awareness with its blunt questioning."--Page [4] of cover.

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Jaar, Alfredo. Studies on happiness.
Artists Chile Interviews.
Happiness.
Artistes Chili Entretiens.
Bonheur.
Artists
Chile

Discursive works.
Essays.
Interviews

One work.

Studies on happiness