Design and Crime: (and Other Diatribes) - Softcover

Foster, Hal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859844537 ISBN 13: 9781859844533

Publisher: Verso, 2003

Synopsis

In the first half of this compelling collection of essays Hal Foster surveys our new "political economy of design," exploring the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities. In a second series of texts, he examines the historical relations of modern art and the 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. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime offers historical sketches and contemporary test-cases in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.

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Review:

"Foster is spot-on ... His 'radical anamnesis' is a notably stirring performance ... exactly the kind of book the design world should want." -- Bookforum "Design and Crime is cool, measured, and steady, like a Gunsmoke shootout, which is all to the good. What bothers me about it is that all through Hal Foster's book I find him changing my mind." -- Greil Marcus "In these elegant and incisive essays, Foster argues that in recent years art culture has lost ground to business culture, and become a franchise of the pervasive global market place." -- Boston Review "Design and Crime is demanding, angry and gentle - a powerful antidote to cultural ennui." -- Modern Painters

About the Author:

Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. A co-editor of October magazine and books, he is the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture and author of Compulsive Beauty and The Return of the Real.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1859844537
• ISBN 13: 9781859844533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194