Overview
Part-text, part-sculpture, part-architecture, part-junk heap, Thomas Hirschhorn's often monumental but precarious works offer a commentary on the spectacle of late-capitalist consumerism and the global proliferation of commodities. Made from ephemeral materialsācardboard, foil, plastic bags, and packing tapeāthat the artist describes as āuniversal, economic, inclusive, and [without] any plus-value,ā these works also engage issues of justice, power, and moral responsibility. Hirschhorn (born in Switzerland in 1957) often chooses to place his work in non-art settings, saying that he wants it to āfight for its own existence.ā In this book, Anna Dezeuze offers a generously illustrated examination of Hirschhorn's Deleuze Monument (2000), the second in his series of four Monuments.
Deleuze Monumentāa sculpture, an altar, and a library dedicated to Gilles Deleuzeāwas conceived as a work open to visitors twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Part of the exhibition āLa BeautĆ©ā in Avignon, Deleuze Monument was controversial from the start, and it was dismantled two months before the end of the exhibition after being vandalized. Dezeuze describes the chronology of the project, including negotiations with local residents; the dynamic between affirmation and vulnerability in Hirschhorn's work; failure and āscatter artā in the 1990s; participatory practices; and problems of presence, maintenance, and appearance, raised by Hirschhorn's acknowledgement of āerrorā in his discontinuous presence on site following the installation of Deleuze Monument.
This book title, Thomas Hirschhorn (Deleuze Monument), ISBN: 9781846381430, by Anna Dezeuze, published by MIT Press (August 22, 2014) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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