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Return of the Real

Hal Foster
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      After the dominant models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Hal Foster argues that in the 1990s, we are now witness to a "return to the real" - to art and theory that seek to be grounded in bodies and sites, identities and communities. 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. It also focuses on the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes: how does the return of a past practice affect the development of a present one? The result is a genealogy of art and theory from minimalism and pop to the present. Chapters can be read independently, although Foster interrelates practices of sometimes disparate time periods and methodologies. Foster disputes the common assumption that contemporary art is only redundant, belated or condemned to pastiche. On the contrary, he suggests that the avant-garde always returns to us "from the future", repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive mode of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressiv
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Hal Foster EAN: 9780262561075 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 635 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: MIT Press Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-09-25 CITY: GENRE: DESIGN / General WIDTH: 178 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theory of art, History of art

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      After the dominant models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Hal Foster argues that in the 1990s, we are now witness to a "return to the real" - to art and theory that seek to be grounded in bodies and sites, identities and communities. 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. It also focuses on the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes: how does the return of a past practice affect the development of a present one? The result is a genealogy of art and theory from minimalism and pop to the present. Chapters can be read independently, although Foster interrelates practices of sometimes disparate time periods and methodologies. Foster disputes the common assumption that contemporary art is only redundant, belated or condemned to pastiche. On the contrary, he suggests that the avant-garde always returns to us "from the future", repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive mode of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressiv
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Hal Foster EAN: 9780262561075 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 635 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: MIT Press Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-09-25 CITY: GENRE: DESIGN / General WIDTH: 178 cm SPINE:

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      20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theory of art, History of art

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