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Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Hal Foster
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Description for Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Hardcover. One of the world's leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 217 x 26. Weight in Grams: 514.
Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror.
Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its ... Read more
Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror.
Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Verso
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784781453
SKU
V9781784781453
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99-15
About Hal Foster
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Foster's strength lies in his erudite attention to those artists that have emerged as definitive of their particular moment.
Mostafa Heddaya
Artinfo
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 (in praise of The Art-Architecture Complex)
The ... Read more
Mostafa Heddaya
Artinfo
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 (in praise of The Art-Architecture Complex)
The ... Read more