Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He is the author of Compulsive Beauty (1993), The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (1996), and Prosthetic Gods (2004), all published by the MIT Press, and other books.
Richard Hamilton Hal Foster (Ed.) Cloth / March 2010 Essays and articles about Richard Hamiton, "the intellectual father of Pop art." Price $35.00 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
Richard Hamilton Hal Foster (Ed.) Paper / March 2010 Essays and articles about Richard Hamiton, "the intellectual father of Pop art." Price $17.95 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
Design and Art Alex Coles (Ed.) Paper / May 2007 The first anthology to address the rise of the "design-art" phenomenon—the breakdown of boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, or product design begun in the Pop and Minimalist eras. Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
Prosthetic Gods Hal Foster Paper / April 2006 Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Gauguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others. Price $22.00 | ADD TO CART
Prosthetic Gods Hal Foster Cloth / November 2004 Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Gauguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others. Price $38.00 | ADD TO CART
Richard Serra Hal Foster (Ed.) Cloth / September 2000 A critical primer on artist Richard Serra's work. OUT OF PRINT
The Return of the Real Art and Theory at the End of the Century Hal Foster Paper / October 1996 Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. Price $30.00 | ADD TO CART
The Return of the Real Art and Theory at the End of the Century Hal Foster Cloth / October 1996 Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. OUT OF PRINT
Compulsive Beauty Hal Foster Cloth / September 1993 In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. OUT OF PRINT
Endgame Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture Yve-Alain Bois, Thomas Crow, Hal Foster, David Joselit, Elisabeth Sussman and Bob Riley Paper / October 1986 Endgame provides the first comprehensive discussion of two interrelated groups of artists who have recently emerged amidst brisk critical debate and who all, in various ways, represent a critique of the commodity, or the commodification of art objects. OUT OF PRINT
October Quarterly (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) / Founded 1976 Focusing critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
