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Contemporary Thinkers

April 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments

Thanks to Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery students, art collectors and anyone else interested in understanding contemporary art, can tap into short and succinct explanations of theories by some of the major thinkers who have formulated their interpretations of art since 1960. This book is an explicative and critical index to the works and ideas […]

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Thomas Hirschhorn

March 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments

In his comical and dysfunctional Universal Gym, Hirschhorn brings back his usual low tech constructions made from cardboard, foil, glass, heart monitors, rubber, tape, trophies, wood, etc. overloading viewers with stuff of consumerism. The motionless figures are similar to stuffed museum specimen. The hearts are gouged out of their chests, and they seem distant. Love […]

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