Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Hal Foster
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.”
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.”
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Publisher:
VERSO
Language:
english
Pages:
202
ISBN 10:
1784781479
ISBN 13:
9782015015514
Series:
9781784781453
File:
PDF, 4.16 MB
IPFS:
,
english0
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