Vittoria Martini: Thomas Hirschhorn : The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, The Ambassador's Diary Paperback / softback
Part of the Hatje Cantz Text series
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The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam’s south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009.
This book recounts the event through the eyes of its “Ambassadorâ€, art historian Vittoria Martini, who was invited by the artist to be an eyewitness to the existence of this “precarious†work.
A term Hirschhorn sees as positive and creative: a means of asserting the importance of the moment and of the place, of asserting the Here and Now to touch eternity and universality.
Appreciating the art historian’s presence as a central element of his sculpture, Hirschhorn consciously challenged the certainties of the profession by empowering and activating the role, thus leading Martini to find a new working methodology that she calls “precarious art historyâ€.
Accompanying the readers through her experience of the physical existence of The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, Martini’s commentary leads to the profound understanding of how a work that no longer exists physically, can live on in the mind— elsewhere, at some other time—because in the meantime it has become universal.
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- Pages:184 pages, 10 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Hatje Cantz
- Publication Date:09/03/2023
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- ISBN:9783775752626
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, 10 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Hatje Cantz
- Publication Date:09/03/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9783775752626