Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes)
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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... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1859846688
ISBN13:9781859846681
Release Date:July 2002
Publisher:Verso
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 7.9"
Customer Reviews
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Critical, like Criticism should be
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
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.
Art can be saved
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
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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