Foster's concise analysis of art practices over the past three decades traces important models at work in art and theory, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two during this period. The author includes a new narrative of the historical avant-garde and concludes with an original reading of our contemporary situation--and what it portends for future practices of art, theory, culture, and politics. 90 illustrations.
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Foster's concise analysis of art practices over the past three decades traces important models at work in art and theory, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two during this period. The author includes a new narrative of the historical avant-garde and concludes with an original reading of our contemporary situation--and what it portends for future practices of art, theory, culture, and politics. 90 illustrations.
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This brainy analysis by the ever-reliable Hal Foster elucidates the connection between artistic practice and theory/criticism between the period of 1960-ish and the mid-1990s, with a lot of references to art and theory of earlier eras. This was written around 1996, I think, so it has a lot of rhetoric in it about the vast right-wing faux-populist attack on culture. Interestingly, his themes and comments are not at all dated. If anything, he seems prophetic, for the "culture wars" that were so newsworthy back in that era have only become more institutionalized and foundational to an understanding to the current fraught position of art, artists, art institutions, and art commentary. Fascinating and thoughtful, The Return Of The Real attempts to breathe life and imbue meaning into the often exhausted-appearing state of contemporary ("avant-garde") art and culture.
