In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of design. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime explores the historical relations of modern art and 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 in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.
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Design and Crime is cool, measured, and steady, like a Gunsmoke shootout. --Greil Marcus
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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.
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Critical, like Criticism should be
18 April 2007
By R. Mclain
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Enjoyable, thought-provoking and concise volume from a dignitary of contemporary criticism. Foster nimbly steers clear the of condescension and pretentiousness that can plague high-minded Criticism of this sort, without sacrificing depth of insight and deliberation. Some may welcome the taking-to-task of Gehry, Koolhaas, and Mau - I did! Refreshing to read a critical analysis of the current state of contemporary art and culture that isn't overly prescriptive, dismissive, scathing, or glib and compliant, but is willing to consider that it nevertheless may not be the best of times.
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Art can be saved
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Illunminating, but probably not for everyone. Foster's modestly-sized book looks like easy reading, but it's not. That's part of its appeal: it's not Recent Art History for Dummies. Nor is it pretentious. Foster does a good job of balancing references to contemporary culture with those to "high" art, and the prosaic with the enchanting. He does a dynamite job of picking out the salient points of Benjamin.
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