THE ANTI-AESTHETIC AT FORTY
Hal Foster on The Anti-Aesthetic
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Hal Foster on The Anti-Aesthetic - Artforum International
THE NOTION OF POSTMODERNISM was once a great stimulant to art and thought; today, it feels like another anti-aphrodisiac of the just past. In some ways, postmodernism seems more historical than modernism, reanimated as modernism is by questions of colonialism, diaspora, and globality. On the other hand, this untimeliness makes the present a good moment to look back at postmodernism, if only to measure our distance from it.The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, which I edited, was published forty years ago; it was quickly followed by Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation (
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Modern Painting: A Concise History World of Art Paperback
A new concise history of modern painting, offering an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium.
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He is now heralded by Tate Britain, but the Windrush artist Aubrey Williams was never recognised in life
The artist, who left Guyana in exile, was an early pioneer of Abstract Expressionism infused with a unique insight into the ancient histories of indigenous art
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