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portada Damien Hirst: The Complete Medicine Cabinets
Damien Hirst: The Complete Medicine CabinetsDamien Hirst: The Complete Medicine CabinetsDamien Hirst: The Complete Medicine Cabinets
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
184
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.4x19.6x2 cm
Weight
0.93 kg.
ISBN13
9781906967369
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Damien Hirst: The Complete Medicine Cabinets

Hirst, Damien ; Danto, Arthur ; Frey, James (Author) · Other Criteria · Hardcover

Damien Hirst: The Complete Medicine Cabinets - Hirst, Damien ; Danto, Arthur ; Frey, James

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Synopsis "Damien Hirst: The Complete Medicine Cabinets"

Published on the occasion of Damien Hirst's exhibition at L&M Gallery, New York, October 2010, the first ever medicine cabinets book is contextualised by the artist's following of the punk movement. The first twelve sculptures in the book are named after the title tracks on the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks album. The front page newspaper spreads punctuating the book from the album's release year (1977) and the year of the cabinets' completion (1989) provide a context for reading James Frey's story poem, Fuck This and Fuck That, which describes the listless protest of a teenage waster. The song titles and cabinet names - No Feelings, Liar and Seventeen - resound with the frustrations of Thatcherite Britain and the violence borne out in daily uprest and anarchy, as depicted in the news: IRA MEN HELD IN BIG SWOOP; RIOT SHIELDS OUT AGAIN and DOCKS JOBS-FOR-LIFE TO BE AXED BY AUTUMN. Hirst's medicine cabinets have long been described as temples of medicinal hierarchies providing nothing more than a short-term cure in the face of death. Viewing the pervasive successes and exploitations of the pharmaceutical industry as a belief system in itself is evidence of our dependency and a form of escapism. Hirst has commented: 'I've always seen medicine cabinets as bodies, but also like a cityscape or civilization, with some sort of hierarchy within it. It's also like a contemporary museum of the Middle Ages. In a hundred years' time this will look like an old apothecary. A museum of something that's around today.'The publication features a radio broadcast interview between Damien Hirst and Steve Jones, the Sex Pistols' guitarist, covering music, girls, money, drugs, drinks and smokes. Thebook's index lists every medicine cabinet ever made and the exhibition itself will include original Sex Pistols memorabilia including album sleeves and t-shirts.

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