Bad New Days looks back at the last 25 years of artistic practice in Western Europe and North America, positioning it in relation to a general condition of emergency that neoliberalism and the war of terror have brought with them. Foster argues that art has actually anticipated this condition, at times miming the collapse of the social contract, at other times resisting it, and at still other times exacerbating it critically. Against the assumption that art no longer heeds any model, he also offers several paradigms of practice over this period, which he terms "abject," "archival," "mimetic," and "precarious."
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One of the world's leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice
"Deft, opinionated ... Foster is one of those rare art theorists whose measured prose can engage a wider readership, cutting through the philosophical inflationism that afflicts much of the higher gossip among art critics." Guardian "Foster's strength lies in his erudite attention to those artists that have emerged as definitive of their particular moment." Mostafa Heddaya, Artinfo, Praise for "The Art-Architecture Complex" "I find it refreshing to encounter a degree of intellectual rigour you don t find too often on my side of the fence." Rowan Moore, Observer "The Art-Architecture Complex is a timely tome with an urgent message for anyone on the art or architecture axis." Time Out "The Art-Architecture Complex is a persistently insightful, elliptical account of an ambiguous symbiosis." Owen Hatherley "Elegant and incisive." Boston Review "[Foster's] latest book, Bad New Days, attempts to recover the idea of an avant-garde after a hard half-century of infighting, obfuscation, rivalry, and successive failures to engage with the real world of politics." Mark Kingwell, Harper's Magazine
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784781453
Publisert
2015-08-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
517 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter

Biographical note

Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and a 2014-15 fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A co-editor of October magazine and books, he is the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic and the author of Design and Crime, Recording, The Return of the Real, Compulsive Beauty and The Art-Architecture Complex.