Rachel Harrison by Rachel Harrison
Gracing the cover jacket of Rachel Harrison's highly anticipated second monograph is an informal monument to the man who holds the Americas' namesake. The only hint to this memorial for the 15th century Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, is an apple resting on an outcropping of neon-green cement; of course the fact that the apple is not only artificial but has a bite taken out of it suggests otherwise to the discovery of these Edenic continents. This slight yet important fact raises the basic conceit of if i did it: the active disavowal of art's political function as a museological testament to the progress of social history. By tossing off this monumental propensity, Harrison builds antimonuments; not so much sculptures but lumpen aggregates of pop psychology. In addition to Vespucci, throughout the book, one finds that celebrities Johnny Depp and Tiger Woods are included in a pantheon with John Locke and 18th century Corsican revolutionary Pasquale Paoli, meanwhile Al Gore checks the temperature, Claude Levi-Strauss checks the door with a taxidermied hen and rooster and a bi-curious Alexander the Great is the master of ceremonies. The title, taken from O.J. Simpson's infamous hypothetical account of his murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Donald Goldman, groups this role call of high- and low- brow idols into a nonhierarchical tableau where cultural and political value are allotted only where one sees fit.
Hans Dickel (born 1956) studied art history and history in T�bingen and Hamburg (doctorate 1985, habilitation 1996). He was assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts (1988 to 1993), exhibition curator and guest lecturer in Harvard, Kyoto, Minneapolis, and Prague. He represented the chair at the Art History Institute of the FU Berlin (1997 to 2002). Since 2002, he has taught as a professor of modern art history at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2010 he had a research stay at Columbia University New York. Mirjam Zadoff (born 1974) is an Austrian historian and director of the NS Documentation Center Munich. She studied History and Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna. From 2001 to 2002, she was a member of the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria, which was commissioned by the Austrian government to research the confiscation of property during the National Socialist era as well as restitution and compensation measures that have taken place since then. In 2006, she received her doctorate summa cum laude in the subjects of Modern and Contemporary History and Jewish History. Ellen Seifermann (born 1956) studied art history, philosophy, and political science in Freiburg. She is a curator and publishes catalogues on contemporary artists. Before moving to the Kunsthalle Nuremberg as director in 1999, she was exhibition director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783905770568 |
| ISBN 10 | 3905770563 |
| Title | Rachel Harrison |
| Author | Rachel Harrison |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | JRP Ringier |
| Year published | 2007-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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