Author: Handlin, Emily
Title: Constant Carnival: The Haas Brothers in Context
Description: Katonah, NY, Katonah Museum of Art, 2022. Softcover. square white wraps w/ black printing. 87 pgs w/ color plates. "The exhibition is the first to pair the Haas Brothers’ sculptures and drawings with historical, modern, and contemporary masterworks. In medieval Europe, the festival of Carnival—like modern day Mardi Gras—was a time of liberation and inversion. Carnival leveled social hierarchies, encouraged free expression, and celebrated behaviors that were usually prohibited. Although the Carnival tradition eventually went into decline, its transgressive spirit survives in artworks that use humor or grotesquery to challenge social norms and destabilize power structures.. By merging the realms of craft, design, and contemporary art, the Haas Brothers also demonstrate just how arbitrary the boundaries and hierarchies of the art world truly are. The exhibition, which traces the history of the carnivalesque from the sixteenth century to the present, is loosely organized around two themes: The World Turned Upside Down and Bodies and Boundaries. Each section will put historical and contemporary works in conversation with each other and with the Haas Brothers’ designs."--Katonah Museum of Art. VG (scuffs to white wraps; instances of rubbed edge-wear. rubbing to corners) .

Keywords: American Artists, Haas Brothers, Excat ; Haas Brothers ; ;


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