Hal Foster on Hal Foster on criticism then and now - Artforum International
This week, the editors pair two pieces by Hal Foster: his 2012 essay on Artforum’s early years and a new appraisal of The Anti-Aesthetic at forty.“The notion of postmodernism was once a great stimulant to art and thought,” Hal Foster writes in Artforum’s September issue. “Today, it feels like another anti-aphrodisiac of the just past.” The critic’s reflections on the intellectual hothouse that produced The Anti-Aesthetic—edited in 1983 by Foster at the tender age of twenty-eight—make for rewarding reading alongside his cogent account of the preceding period, now enshrined ...
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