{"product_id":"thomas-hirschhorn-anna-dezeuze-9781846381430","title":"Thomas Hirschhorn: Deleuze Monument","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn illustrated examination of one of Hirschhorn's \"precarious\" monuments, now dismantled.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart-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 materials--cardboard, foil, plastic bags, and packing tape--that the artist describes as \"universal, economic, inclusive, and [without] any plus-value,\" 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 \"fight for its own existence.\" In this book, Anna Dezeuze offers a generously illustrated examination of Hirschhorn's \u003ci\u003eDeleuze Monument\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), the second in his series of four \u003ci\u003eMonuments\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeleuze Monument\u003c\/i\u003e--a sculpture, an altar, and a library dedicated to Gilles Deleuze--was conceived as a work open to visitors twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Part of the exhibition \"La Beauté\" 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 \"scatter art\" in the 1990s; participatory practices; and problems of presence, maintenance, and appearance, raised by Hirschhorn's acknowledgement of \"error\" in his discontinuous presence on site following the installation of \u003ci\u003eDeleuze Monument\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Dezeuze\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1846381436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846381430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Afterall Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.94w x 0.45d","brand":"Anna Dezeuze","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442604585215,"sku":"9781846381430","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f28521a1-e6de-4e1f-89f2-692c7313e821.jpg?v=1777198518","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thomas-hirschhorn-anna-dezeuze-9781846381430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}