"Meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments address topics that range from pathos and genius to careerism and club sandwiches.Marcus Steinweg's capacity to implicate the other is beautiful, bright, precise, and logical, grounded in everyday questions, which to him are always big questions. -- from the foreword by Thomas HirschhornThe houses of philosophy need not be palaces. -- Marcus Steinweg, "House," The Terror of EvidenceThi ..."
"Abstract Resistance considers the metaphor of resistance as a political and compositional force defining the art of the past half-century. Starting with Michel Foucault's assertion that -where there is power, there is resistance, - it explores art made since World War II that has been shaped by traumatic historical events in complex ways. Rather than creating an explicit art of social protest, artists have responded to violence and uphe ..."
"We must accept them like the ground we walk upon.86 But that doesn't mean that
we have ground to rely on, final ... of life and every language game remains
contingent, a sort of floating architecture erected on a foundation that is in no way
..."
"Bringing together 15 Maps realized between 2003 and 2016 by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn (born 1957), this book focuses on this particular aspect of his practice that could be seen as a matrix to understand his unique position within the art world and visual culture. As he explains: “With my Maps, I want to make clear I have a goal, that I am also a maker, and not only a thinker.” Edited by Julie Enckell Julliard, the publication repr ..."
"On Thomas Hirschhorn’s city-wide interactive installation honoring Robert WalserFor three months, the Swiss city of Biel hosted a temporary “sculpture” by Thomas Hirschhorn (born 1957), honoring novelist Robert Walser. Hirschhorn and curator Kathleen Bühler offered readings, walking tours, lectures and children’s activities, all of which comprise the “sculpture."
"Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 365 Publisher: JRPRingier Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Swiss Pavilion of the 2011 Venice the Biennale Establishing a Critical Corpus is the first theoretical examination of the work of Thomas Hirschhorn (born 1957 ). in six illustrated essays by authors including scholars Claire Bishop and Hal Foster and the poet Manuel Joseph. providing a variety of angles on Hirsc ..."
Thomas Hirshhorn Rolex etc., Freundlichs Aufstieg und Skulptur - Sortier - Station - Dokumentation [aka : Katalog / Catalogue : 12 Ausstellungen / 12 Exhibitions] by Thomas: Hirschhorn, MarcusSteinweg Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 1998 by Museum Ludwig / Cantz Verlag., Köln / Stuttgart. ISBN-13: 978-3-89322-430-2, ISBN: 3-89322-430-0
Gramsci Theater(1st Edition) Eine Ontologiekomödie in 26 Bildern (Paperback) by MarcusSteinweg, ThomasHirschhorn Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Merve ISBN-13: 978-3-88396-302-0, ISBN: 3-88396-302-X
Maps (Internationaler Merve Diskurs) by MarcusSteinweg, ThomasHirschhorn Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2015 by Merve Verlag Gmbh ISBN-13: 978-3-88396-254-2, ISBN: 3-88396-254-6
"Marcus Steinweg, Amanda DeMarco. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Like Deleuze,
Byung-Chul Han reminds us that one must differentiate between idiocy and
stupidity: “From the outset, philosophy has been closely associated ...
relationship to discussions of political themes. See Michel Foucault, Remarks on
Marx, trans. R. James Goldstein and James Cascaito (New York: Semiotext[e],
1991), 180. Originally published as Colloqui con Foucault ..."
"Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality.Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure. -- InconsistenciesThese 130 short texts -- aphoristic, interlacing, and sometimes perplexing -- target a perennial philosophical problem: Our consciousness and our experience of reality are inconsistent, fragmentary, and unstable; God i ..."
"The future is already here ? it?s just not evenly distributed', the title of the 20th Biennale of Sydney exhibition and of the accompanying catalogue, is inspired by a comment by leading science-fiction author William Gibson, and also ..."
"Richard PhillipsThe first monograph on New York-based contemporary artist Richard Phillips, best known for his large-scale paintings that are ultracool in execution and very hot in effect. Richard Phillips's hyperrealistic oil paintings embody themes as broad as power, politics, celebrity, fashion, ideology, beauty, and sex, and pose questions about the status of painting today: Does the medium remain valid, or has it become a historica ..."