
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
Hal Foster(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 10. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-84467-670-5 (ISBN)
Description
In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of design. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime explores the historical relations of modern art and modern museum, the conceptual vicissitudes of art history and visual studies, the recent travails of art criticism, and the double aftermath of modernism and postmodernism in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.
Reviews / Votes
Foster is spot-on ... exactly the kind of book the design world should want. * Bookforum * Elegant and incisive essays. * Boston Review * In a polite and even schmoozy art world, Foster stands out for being willing to make barbed comments on design gods. * National Post * Foster makes a lot of sense. * Village Voice *More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
225 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84467-670-5 (9781844676705)
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Person
Hal Foster is the author of numerous books, including The Art-Architecture Complex, The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, and, with Richard Serra, Conversations about Sculpture. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he delivered the 2018 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in Washington. He teaches at Princeton University, co-edits the journal October, and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books.