Fail better Reckonings with artists and critics
Book - 2025
"A collection of Hal Foster's writing as a critic, since 1993"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xiii, 434 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780262552356
- Introduction
- I. Some Antecedents
- 1. A Painter of Pop Life
- 2. Watchman and Spy
- 3. Every Sidewalk Is a Ray Gun Beach
- 4. Andy Paperbag
- 5. Object Lessons
- 6. Blank Magic
- 7. To Support
- 8. Serial and Fused
- 9. The Underside of Things
- 10. Cultural Studies
- 11. In a Glass Darkly
- 12. The Culture of the Raster
- 13. Evening in America
- 14. Blasted Allegories
- 15. The Writing on the Wall
- II. Some Contemporaries
- 16. Oblique Looking
- 17. Direct Address
- 18. The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic
- 19. I Could Be Me
- 20. A Passenger in My Own Psyche
- 21. Imaginary Tableaux
- 22. Third Nature
- 23. Perverse Pantomime
- 24. Inexplicable Things
- 25. Philosophical Objects
- 26. Lost and Found
- 27. Civil Wars and Pop Utopias
- 28. Happy Days
- 29. How Not To
- 30. Media Corpsing
- 31. The Artist as Anthologist
- III. Some Critics
- 32. A Certain Practice of Life
- 33. Radical Style
- 34. Hyperbolic Criticism
- 35. Made for Cutting
- 36. An Inventory of Encounters
- 37. Antinomic Modernism
- 38. The Ruins of Spectacle
- 39. Interdependent Study (the Whitney Program)
- 40. The Anti-Aesthetic Then and Now
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index