The Anti-aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture - Hal.
The essays in The Anti-Aesthetic provide a comprehensive review of the main currents of both post-modern criticism and post-modern art forms. Addressing Feminism, Marxism, Structuralism and Deconstruction, the essays by Habermas, Baudrillard, Jameson and Said among others lay out the touch points of contemporary art criticism including montage, linguistics, psychoanalysis, allegory, ideology.With a redesigned cover and a new afterword that situates the book in relation to contemporary criticism, 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. Includes a new afterword by Hal Foster and 12 black and white.With a redesigned cover and a new afterword that situates the book in relation to contemporary criticism, 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.
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.Get this from a library! The anti-aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture. (Hal Foster;) -- A handsome new edition of the seminal collection of late-twentieth-century cultural criticism. Named a Best Book of the Year by the Village Voice and considered a bible of contemporary cultural.
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture by Jurgen Habermas, Kenneth Frampton, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Gregory L Ulmer, Fredric Jameson, Edward W Said.
