Return of the Real Art and Theory at the End of the Century

Name: Return of the Real Art and Theory at the End of the Century
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ISBN: 9780262561075

ISBN-10: 0262561077

ISBN-13: 9780262561075

Edition: 1996

Authors: Hal Foster, George Baker, Yve-alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, Leah Dickerman

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In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today. After the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s; Foster suggests that we are now witness to a return to the real -- to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, and the author of many books, including "The Return of the Real", "Design and Crime", "Prosthetic Gods", and "The Art-Architecture Complex". A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2010 recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing and the 2013 recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.