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Critical Laboratory The Writings of Thomas Hirschhorn

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ISBN-10: 0262019256

ISBN-13: 9780262019255

Edition: 2013

Authors: Thomas Hirschhorn, Lisa Lee, Hal Foster

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For the artist Thomas Hirschhorn, writing is a crucial tool at every stage of hisartistic practice. From the first sketch of an idea to appeals to potential collaborators, fromdetailed documentation of projects to post-disassembly analysis, Hirschhorn's writings mark thetrajectories of his work. This volume collects Hirschhorn's widely scattered texts, presenting manyin English for the first time.In these writings, Hirschhorn discusses the fullrange of his art, from works on paper to the massive Presence and Productionprojects in public spaces. "Statements and Letters" address broad themes of aestheticphilosophy, politics, and art historical commitments. "Projects" consider specificartworks…    
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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/19/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Lisa Lee is Assistant Professor of Art History at Emory University. She is coeditor (with Hal Foster) of Critical Laboratory: The Writings of Thomas Hirschhorn (MIT Press, 2013).

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, and the author of many books, including "The Return of the Real", "Design and Crime", "Prosthetic Gods", and "The Art-Architecture Complex". A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2010 recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing and the 2013 recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.

Acknowledgments
Preface
Statements and Letters
Less Is Less, More Is More (1995)
Fifty-Fifty (1993)
Moins (1993)
Les Plaintifs, Les Betes, Les Politiques (1993)
Lay-Out (1993)
My Videos (1993)
The New Videos (1994)
The Mus�e de l'art brut in Lausanne (1993)
Letter to Coraly (On Joseph Beuys and "Capital") (1994)
Am I Casting Pearls Before Swine? And Why? (1994)
What I Want (1994)
Letter to Thierry (On Formalism) (1994)
Letter to Konstantin (On "Political Correctness") (1995)
Me and the Military (1998)
Letter to Pascale (On Berlin) (1994)
"Direct Sculptures" (2000)
"Kiosks" (2000)
"Monuments" (2003)
"Altars" (2003/2006)
Letter to V�ronique (On Writing, Judging, Reading, Publishing) (2000)
Letter to Laurence and Hans-Ulrich (On Remaining Alert) (2000)
I Will No Longer Exhibit in Switzerland (2003)
Letter to Julia et al. (There Is No Ideal Place for Art) (2005)
Works on Paper (2006)
Artist Lectures (2007)
I Will Exhibit in My Homeland Again (2007)
Why "Where Do I Stand?" and Why "What Do I Want?" (2008)
Doing Art Politically: What Does This Mean? (2008)
"Spectrum of Evaluation" (2009)
"Force Majeure" (2009)
For the First Time (About Andy Warhol) (2010)
Double Happiness (On Intellectual Property) (2010)
Letter to Nancy and Richard (My Guggenheim Dilemma) (2011)
Letter to Elizabeth (Inventing My Own Terms) (2010)
Why Is It Important-Today-to Show and Look at Images of Destroyed Human Bodies? (2012)
Letter to the French Minister of Culture and Communication (2012)
33 Ausstellungen Im �ffentlichen Raum 1998-1989
Reproduction and Translation of 33 Ausstellungen im �ffentlichen Raum 1998-1989
Projects
About My Exhibition at H�pital Eph�m�re (Why I Chose This Exhibition as My "First Exhibition") (1992)
Regarding My Exhibition at Rueil-Malmaison (1992)
99 Sacs plastiques (D�p�t) (1994)
Regarding My Exhibition of Wall-Display, Rosa Tombola, Saisie, Lay-Out (1988-1994) at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (1994)
Berliner Wasserfall mit Robert Walser Tr�nen (1995)
Letter to Matthias (Regarding Virus-Ausstellung) (1996)
The Bilbao Failure (1996)
Lascaux III (1997)
Skulptur-Sortier-Station (1997)
Letter to Alison (Regarding Skulptur-Sortier-Station) (2000)
Spinoza Monument (1999)
Critical Laboratory, Project for "Mirror's Edge" (1999)
World Airport (1999)
Jumbo Spoons (1999)
The Matter of Location (Regarding the Deleuze Monument) (2000)
Letter to Herv� Laurent and Nathalie Wetzel (Regarding the Deleuze Monument) (2000)
Regarding the End of the Deleuze Monument (2000)
Letter to Bice (Regarding Wirtschaftslandschaft Davos) (2001)
Letter to the Residents of the Friedrich W�hler Housing Complex (Regarding the Bataille Monument) (2002)
Letter to Lothar Kannenberg (Regarding the Bataille Monument) (2002)
Letter to Iris (Reflections on the Bataille Monument) (2002)
Doppelgarage (2002)
Chalet Lost History (2003)
Letter to Clare (Regarding Chalet Lost History) (2005)
Regarding Hotel Democracy and U-Lounge (2003)
Swiss-Swiss Democracy (2004)
The Mus�e Pr�caire Albinet (2004)
Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress (2005)
"Anschool" (2005)
Superficial Engagement (2005)
Letter to Sabine (Regarding Superficial Engagement) (2006)
Letter to Frederic (Regarding "Concretion") (2006)
The Procession (2006)
Concept Car (2007)
Power Tools (2007)
Ur-Collage (2008)
The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival (2009)
"Precarious Theater" (2009)
Th��tre Pr�caire for "Ce qui vient" (2009)
Regarding Th��tre Pr�caire and Th��tre Pr�caire 2 (2010)
Untere Kontrolle (2011)
Crystal of Resistance (2011)
Interviews
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: An Interview with Thomas Hirschhorn (2003, Published 2005)
Mission: "Tenir Le Si�ge": Interview with Thomas Hirschhorn by Jade Lindgaard and Jean-Max Colard (2004)
Becoming One's Own Museum: Conversation Between Thomas Hirschhorn and Fran�ois Piron (2006, Edited and Published 2009)
Conversation: Presupposition of the Equality of Intelligences and Love of the Infinitude of Thought: An Electronic Conversation Between Thomas Hirschhorn and Jacques Ranci�re (2009-2010)
Fran�ois Piron: Interview with Thomas Hirschhorn (2010)
Notes
Bibliography
Index