Tras los paradigmas del arte-como-texto de los años setenta y el arte-como-simulacro de los ochenta, Hal Foster sostiene que somos testigos de un retorno de lo real, un retorno del arte y la teoría que buscan asentarse en los cuerpos reales y en los sitios sociales. El libro presenta una lectura original del arte y de la teoría de las tres últimas décadas, con especial atención a las polémicas conexiones entre ambos, y repiensa la relación entre las vanguardias históricas y las neovanguardias....
One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour, and...
A leading art theorist analyses the global style in art and architecture Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. More than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster...
