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Douglas Huebler
Douglas Huebler (October 27, 1924 – July 12, 1997) was an American conceptual artist.
Life and career.
Douglas Huebler grew up in rural Michigan during the Depression and served in the Marines in World War II. After the war, funded by the GI Bill, Huebler earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Michigan, and later went on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. He worked for several years as a commercial art illustrator in New York as
subject of conceptual art to popular tunes like "Camptown Races" and "Some Enchanted Evening".
- 1970: Douglas Huebler exhibits a series of photographs which were taken every two minutes whilst driving along a road for 24 minutes.
- 1970: Douglas Huebler asks museum visitors to write down 'one authentic secret'. The resulting 1800 documents are compiled into a book which, by some accounts, makes for very repetitive reading as most secrets are similar.
- 1971: Hans Haacke's "Real Time Social