{"product_id":"9781846381447","title":"Thomas Hirschhorn: Deleuze Monument","description":"\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. \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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\u003cp\u003e Afterall Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Afterall Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043232006384,"sku":"9781846381447","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846381447_p0.jpg?v=1763749596","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846381447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}