Hirst-isms

Damien Hirst, Larry Warsh

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Princeton University Press
01 March 2023

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Art & design styles: Pop art; Dictionaries of quotations; Popular culture

Series: ISMs

A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien Hirst.

Hirst-isms is a collection of quotations - bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful - from celebrated artist Damien Hirst, whose controversial work explores the connections between art, religion, science, life, and death. Emerging in the 1990s as a leading member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Hirst first became famous and gained a reputation as a provocateur with a series of artworks featuring dead and sometimes dissected animals (including a shark, sheep, and cow) preserved in glass tanks filled with formaldehyde.

Gathered from interviews and other primary sources and organised by subject, these quotations explore Hirst's early years, family life, and the beginnings of his fascination with art; the major themes of his work; his influences and heroes; his motivation; his process and the boundary-pushing production of his work; and his thoughts on the art world, fame, and money. The result is a comprehensive and nuanced book that sheds new light on a fascinating and important contemporary artist.

Select quotations from the book:

'The less I feel like an artist, the better I feel.' 'I like it when people love my art. I like it when people hate my art. I just don't want them to ignore my art.' 'Painting's like the most fabulous illusion, because there's nothing at stake. Except yourself.' 'I'm interested in the confusion between art and life, I like it when the world gets in the way.' 'Sometimes you have to step over the edge to know where it is.'

By: Damien Hirst
Edited by: Larry Warsh
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 133mm, Width: 108mm,
ISBN: 9780691239859
ISBN 10: 0691239851
Series: ISMs
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Damien Hirst is an English artist and the most prominent of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who emerged in the 1990s. In 1995, he won Tate Britain's Turner Prize, Great Britain's premier award for contemporary art. Hirst has been the subject of more than eighty solo exhibitions, and his work is in the permanent collections of major museums around the world. Larry Warsh has been active in the art world for more than thirty years as a publisher and artist-collaborator. He is the editor of many books, including The Notebooks of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol-isms, Basquiat-isms, Weiwei-isms, and Haring-isms (all Princeton).

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Hirst-isms

Damien Hirst, Larry Warsh

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