Review
"Readers serious about modern and contemporary art eagerly await each new offering from the prolific Hal Foster, one of the leading cultural critics and theorists in the United States." Nancy Tousley Calgary Herald
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
Foster begins with the primitivist fantasies of Gauguin and Picasso, which he examines through the Freudian lens of the primal scene. He then turns to the purist obsessions of the Viennese architect Loos, who abhorred all things primitive.