Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency - Hardcover

Foster, Hal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784781452 ISBN 13: 9781784781453

Verlag: Verso Books, 2015

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Críticas

"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

Reseña del editor

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."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784781452
• ISBN 13: 9781784781453
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208