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The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century
""The Return of the Real" is one of the most cogent and theoretically self-aware readings of contemprary art I have seen."
-- Howard Singerman, Department of Art History, University of Virginia In "The Return of the Real" Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today.
-- Howard Singerman, Department of Art History, University of Virginia In "The Return of the Real" Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today.
Book Details
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publish Date: Sep 25th, 1996
- Pages: 328
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.02in - 6.94in - 0.62in - 1.36lb
- EAN: 9780262561075
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • History - General• Criticism & Theory
About the Author
Foster, Hal: - Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and the author of Prosthetic Gods (MIT Press) and other books.
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Praise for this book
-- Howard Singerman, Department of Art History, University of Virginia
" "The Return of the Real" is one of the most cogent and theoretically self-aware readings of contemprary art I have seen." -- Howard Singerman, Department of Art History, University of Virginia
& quot; The Return of the Real is one of the most cogent and theoretically self-aware readings of contemprary art I have seen.& quot; -- Howard Singerman, Department of Art History, University of Virginia
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""The Return of the Real" is one of the most cogent and theoretically self-aware readings of contemprary art I have seen."--Howard Singerman, Department of Art History, University of Virginia
