Oct 08 2025

Book Launch and Conversation | Thomas Hirschhorn from Graphic Design to Art with Lisa Lee and Hal Foster

Wed | 7PM

Please join us for the launch of Thomas Hirschhorn from Graphic Design to Art, a groundbreaking study of the crossover relationship between art and graphic design in the work of widely acclaimed artist Thomas Hirschhorn by art historian Lisa Lee.

To celebrate the launch of the publication, Lee will be engaged in conversation around her analysis of this period of Hirschhorn’s work which has never before received sustained critical attention with critic and art historian Hal Foster.

Thomas Hirschhorn from Graphic Design to Art
Author: Lisa Lee
2025, English
8 x 10 in, 232 pages, 233 color illus., hardcover
ISBN: 9780262049733
Published by The MIT Press

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

Lisa Lee is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University. She is the author of Isa Genzken: Sculpture as World Receiver. Together with Hal Foster, she coedited Critical Laboratory: The Writings of Thomas Hirschhorn (MIT Press).

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. He is the author of What Comes After Farce? and Brutal Aesthetics, among other books. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he coedits October, and writes regularly for The London Review of Books.

Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, Untitled, 1985. Courtesy the artist.