The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture - Softcover

Foster, Hal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565844629 ISBN 13: 9781565844629

Publisher: New Pr, 1999

Synopsis

For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. The Anti-Aesthetic is a touchstone volume for postmodern debate and theory. Though the cultural stakes and terms have changed over the last decade, this collection still illuminates--perhaps now even more lucidly--a vital current in contemporary criticism. Contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jrgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Edward Said, and Gregory Ulmer.

About this title

About the Author:

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.

Review:

A Best Book of the Year. -- Village Voice

The essays in this collection are theoretically sophisticated and they display a concrete grasp of contemporary art practice....It is probably the most useful, serious, and rewarding anthology of its kind; it should be read by anyone concerned with the practice and theory of contemporary art. -- Art in America

About this edition

• Publisher: New Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1565844629
• ISBN 13: 9781565844629
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159