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The Return of the Real Art and Theory at the End of the Century

Paperback • 1996 • English

The Return of the Real Art and Theory at the End of the Century

By Hal Foster

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About the book

In The Return of the Real 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. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today.After the models of art-a...Show more

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9780262561075

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

The Return of the Real Art and Theory at the End of the Century

Format

Paperback

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