The Anti-aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture: Foster.
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. For the past thirty 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.A continuing best-seller -- with more than 60,000 copies sold -- 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.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.
Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism, marking a departure from modernism.The term has been more generally applied to describe a historical era said to follow after modernity and the tendencies of this era. While encompassing a wide variety of approaches and disciplines, postmodernism is.The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Hal Foster (ed.) The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism. Hal Foster. The Ecstasy of Communication. Hal Foster. References found in this work BETA. No references found. Add more references Citations of this work BETA.
Main The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on postmodern culture. The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on postmodern culture Hal Foster. Collection of essays on postmodernism and various examples thereof. Consumed this particular text during my 2000-2001 stint at SMCM, working my way through my SMP, trying to create reasonably plausible art students in my novel.
