The Anti-aesthetic by Hal Foster

The Anti-aesthetic by Hal Foster

A handsome new edition of the seminal collection of late twentieth-century cultural criticism, The Anti-Aesthetic was named a Best Book of the Year by the Village Voice and considered a bible of contemporary cultural criticism.

For the past twenty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said consider the full range of postmodern cultural production, from the writing of John Cage, to Cindy Sherman's film stills, to Barbara Kruger's collages. The Anti-Aesthetic provides a strong introduction for newcomers and a point of reference for those already engaged in discussions of postmodern art, culture, and criticism.

"Essential"
—Glyn Banks, Studio International

"[M]ay have initiated the rising wave of books that both criticize modernist art and take new critical approaches to art in general."
—Vantage Point

"[P]robably the most useful, serious and rewarding anthology of its kind."
—Art in America

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

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ISBN 13	9781565847422
ISBN 10	1565847423
Title	The Anti-aesthetic
Author	Hal Foster
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New Press
Year published	2002-01-04
Number of pages	208
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