About this title: After the dominant models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Hal Foster argues that in the 1990s, we are now witness to a "return to the real" - to art and theory that seek to be grounded in bodies and sites, identities and communities. Foster's concise analysis of art practices over the past three decades traces important models at work in art and theory, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two during this period. It also focuses on the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes: how does the return of a past practice affect ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780262561075ISBN:0262561077
Description: Very Good. "An October Book. " The compelling analyses in (title) make clear that Hal Foster is one of the few contemporary critics who consistently ask and think through the most probing questions about the turbulent intersection of late twentieth-century art, cultural theory, and global capitalism, and who keenly know that the answers to them can never be reassuring or fashionable affirmations but rather new and disquieting questions. 299 pp includes Index and Notes. Tight binding. Pages are ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge and London
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780262561075ISBN:0262561077
Description: Paperback. There are many pages that are creased and the top edge of the last forty or so pages and the rear cover appears to have been affected by damp at some stage. The book remains in perfectly readable condition. ISBN 0262561077. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press; An October Book, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780262061872ISBN:0262061872
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Collectible. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xix, 299 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 23 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "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 ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780262561075ISBN:0262561077
Description: Good. Cover and pages may have some wear or writing. Binding is tight. We ship daily Monday-Friday. Delivery Confirmation included on all domestic orders. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MIT PR
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780262561075ISBN:0262561077
Description: Foster's concise analysis of art practices over the past three decades traces important models at work in art and theory, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two during this period. The author includes a new narrative... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 10/1/96
ISBN-13:9780262561075ISBN:0262561077
Description: Good. 1996 MIT Press Paperback, clean w/minor wear, occ yellow hi-lite/Ink, Orders ship next day packaged with care in cardboard padding for safe shipping. read more
Edition: First Edition in Soft Cover
Binding: Softcover (trade paperback)
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780262561075ISBN:0262561077
Description: F. Octavo. A fine, bright trade paper edition, as new and unread. xix pp. and 299 pages, including b/w photographs throughout text, and index. A collection of essays that explore the return of avant-garde art during the final years of the twentieth century. A crisp, clean copy, frequently found in reprint. Covers are mylar-protected. read more
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass
Date Published: c1996
ISBN-13:9780262561075ISBN:0262561077
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Frst Ed. No markings. Cover is complete, has usual rubbngs frm handlng, owise fine. Binding is tight. Front of cvr has smll crease frnt bttm cornr. Cln interior. Unknown printing. (pb: alk. paper) xix, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. "An October book. " Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-292) and index. read more
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