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Hal Foster

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"A collection of Hal Foster's writing as a critic, since 1993"--

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Subjects
Genres
Essays
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Hal Foster (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