
Discussions in Contemporary Culture
Hal Foster(Editor)
The New Press
Published on 15. October 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-56584-463-6 (ISBN)
Description
A Village Voice Best Book of the Year that examines contemporary cultural politics.
With contributions by: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
James Clifford
Douglas Crimp
Thomas Crow
Virginia Dominguez
Michael Feher
Michael Fried
Dan Graham
Alice Jardine
Silvia Kolbowski
Rosalind Krauss
Barbara Kruger
Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Craig Owens
Aimee Rankin
Martha Rosler
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.
With contributions by: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
James Clifford
Douglas Crimp
Thomas Crow
Virginia Dominguez
Michael Feher
Michael Fried
Dan Graham
Alice Jardine
Silvia Kolbowski
Rosalind Krauss
Barbara Kruger
Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Craig Owens
Aimee Rankin
Martha Rosler
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56584-463-6 (9781565844636)
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Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, where he teaches courses in modernist and contemporary art and theory and directs the graduate proseminar in methodology. He is a faculty member of the School of Architecture and an associate faculty member of the Department of German; he also works with Media and Modernity and European Cultural Studies programs. He is the author of numerous books, including The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture and Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics, both published by The New Press. He is also the editor of two New Press books, Discussions in Contemporary Culture #1 and Vision and Visuality: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #2. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foster writes regularly for October, which he co-edits; Artforum; the London Review of Books; and New Left Review.