The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century - Couverture rigide

Foster, Hal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262061872 ISBN 13 : 9780262061872

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1996

Synopsis

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 sites. If The Return of the Real begins with a new narrative of the historical avant-gard, it concludes with an original reading of this contemporary situation—and what it portends for future practices of art and theory, culture and politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and the author of Prosthetic Gods (MIT Press) and other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262061872
• ISBN 13: 9780262061872
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible