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Rachel Harrison - If I Did it (Paperback)
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Rachel Harrison - If I Did it (Paperback)
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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.
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