【2015】Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Book 图书名称: Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Author 作者: Hal Foster
Publisher 出版社:Verso
Page 页数:202
Publishing Date 出版时间: Sep 8, 2015
Language 语言: English
Size 大小: 4 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN:1784781452 , ISBN-13: 978-1784781453
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
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 Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it.
Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms “abject,” “archival,” “mimetic,” and “precarious.”