Freedom Is Now Simply Going to Be Sponsored--Out of Petty Cash / Related Materials: ad for Mercedes with quote, "Art will always remain art" by Goethe / 20th Century; Creation date: 1990

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Work Title: Freedom Is Now Simply Going to Be Sponsored--Out of Petty Cash
View Title: Related Materials: ad for Mercedes with quote, "Art will always remain art" by Goethe
Creator/Culture: artist: Hans Christoph Haacke (American, 1936-)
Site/Repository: Installation: Berlin (Germany)
Period/Date: 20th Century; Creation date: 1990
Media/Technique: watchtower in former "deathstrip" between East and West Berlin, fitted with tinted glass windows, neon Mercedes-Benz logo, bronze inscriptions
Subjects: Germany --History --1945-1990; Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Peace; Mercedes automobile; Conceptual art; Consumption (Economics); Germany --Boundaries
Work Record ID: 241988
Image Record ID: 950573
Digital filename: 03001738; 08d003405
Classification Filing Number: INT; H111; 1990-Fz 2
HART Image Order Number: 230323

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Collection: History of Art, VRC Image Bank
Record: 950573
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-950573/03001738

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Full citation: History of Art Department, Visual Resource Collections. Image 950573. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. URL: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-950573/03001738. April 18, 2024.