A groundbreaking study of the crossover relationship between art and graphic design in the work of widely acclaimed artist Thomas Hirschhorn (b. 1957). Drawing extensively from unknown or little-known works and previously unpublished documents from the artist’s archive, Thomas Hirschhorn from Graphic Design to Art explores the formative decade of 1984 to 1994. It tells the story of Hirschhorn’s initial commitment to the print medium, with its basis in mass culture and distribution, as a vehicle for his political energies. Lisa Lee analyzes, for the first time in Hirschhorn scholarship, his works of ”self-commissioned graphic design,“ which combine rudimentary collage…