The return of the real : the avant-garde at the end of the century / Hal Foster.

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Foster, Hal.

Title & Author:

The return of the real : the avant-garde at the end of the century / Hal Foster.

Publication:

Description:

xix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

October books

Notes:
"An October book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-292) and index.
Who's afraid of the neo-avant-garde? -- The crux of minimalism -- The passion of the sign -- The art of cynical reason -- The return of the real -- The artist as ethnographer -- Whatever happened to postmodernism?
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The Return of the Real presents an original reading of art and theory over the last three decades, with special emphasis to the controversial connections between the two. It also rethinks the relation between historical avant gardes and neo-avant-gardes. The result is an authoritative genealogy of art and theory from minimalism and pop to the present, with important ramifications for prewar studies as well. Against the cliche that contemporary art and theory are condemned to historical pastiche, Foster argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative work in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is so pervasive today.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

0262061872 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262061872 (hc ; alk. paper)
0262561077 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780262561075 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art criticism History 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) History 20th century.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art, Modern.
Critique d'art Histoire 20e siècle.
Art 20e siècle.
Art criticism.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Avantgarde
Kunst
Moderne
Ästhetik
Beeldende kunsten.
Avant-garde.
Kunstkritiek.
Artes (século 20)
Crítica de arte (século 20)
Avant-garde (esthétique)
Geschichte 1960-1995.
Visual arts History

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

October books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115195
Call No.: ID N7475.F67; ID:96-B2731
Status: Available

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