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Title: The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (October Books) by Hal Foster ISBN: 0-262-56107-7 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How can this be anything but five stars!
Comment: Granted, I'm not a Phd. in art history, so I can't claim how much of Foster's thinking is his own and how much he "borrows," but these essays, all interrelated and commenting on each other, carefully dissect postwar art, culture, politics, theory. I've read these essays four or five times and come away with a different insight on art each time. The definite highlight for me was the essay on traumatic realism (which ranges from the opposing simulacral and ideological readings of Warhol, to the tearing of the screen in Cindy Sherman, to the abject in art, to the opposing needs to deconstruct the subject and also reaffirm the subject in racial/sexual/cultural discourse.) Whew! It's a daring essay and is the rosetta stone, I think, of the entire book. His insight on the loss of critical distance (which accounts for why the Left and Right sound so much alike these days)needs to be heeded. Long live all the October writers!
Rating: 4
Summary: excellent analysis ensured by rich Aesthetic knowledge
Comment: A quite interesting book about visual arts since '1960 written by the author and editor of "Anti-Aesthetics".@Especially the analysis of the recent relationship between Art and Anthropology/Ethnography is unique and suggestive.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very productive reading
Comment: The book is full of productive suggestions for writing on contemporary visual arts. For a foreign reader, it provides a cogent overview of different moments in recent art; a fine sampling of commentary on theoretical writing, and valuable insight into current art criticism in the U.S. "The Return of the Real", meaning by that the Lacanian "Real", is a thought-provoking, stimulating idea that runs through the book and has refreshed my own critical work. I am indebted to this book.
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Title: The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture by Hal Foster ISBN: 1565847423 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. Krauss ISBN: 0262610469 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 09 July, 1986 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Design and Crime and Other Diatribes by Hal Foster ISBN: 1859846688 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord ISBN: 0942299795 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 23 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind E. Krauss ISBN: 0262611058 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 25 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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