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The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century

by Foster, Hal

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Book Overview In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and...
In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today.

After the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Foster suggests that we are now witness to a return to the real--to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social sites. If The Return of the Real begins with a new narrative of the historical avant-gard, it concludes with an original reading of this contemporary situation--and what it portends for future practices of art and theory, culture and politics.

Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 328 | Language: English | Publisher: MIT PR | ISBN: 0262561077
FormatPaperback
Pages328
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0262561077
EAN9780262561075
PublisherMIT PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
EditionFourth Printing
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.36 Pounds
Length9.02 Inches
Width6.94 Inches
Height0.62 Inches
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