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The return of the real : the avant-garde at the end of the century / Hal Foster.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.Description: xix, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262061872
  • 0262561077
  • 9780262061872
  • 9780262561075
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701.1809045 FOS 20 12899
LOC classification:
  • N7475 .F67 1996
Summary: The Return of the Real presents an original reading of art and theory over the last three decades, with special emphasis to the controversial connections between the two. It also rethinks the relation between historical avant gardes and neo-avant-gardes. The result is an authoritative genealogy of art and theory from minimalism and pop to the present, with important ramifications for prewar studies as well. Against the cliche that contemporary art and theory are condemned to historical pastiche, Foster argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative work in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is so pervasive today.
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Book Marium Abdulla Library Non-Ref Liberal Arts 701.1809045 FOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12899

"An October book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-292) and index.

The Return of the Real presents an original reading of art and theory over the last three decades, with special emphasis to the controversial connections between the two. It also rethinks the relation between historical avant gardes and neo-avant-gardes. The result is an authoritative genealogy of art and theory from minimalism and pop to the present, with important ramifications for prewar studies as well. Against the cliche that contemporary art and theory are condemned to historical pastiche, Foster argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative work in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is so pervasive today.

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