Design and Crime: (And Other Diatribes) (Radical Thinkers Classic Editions)

Design and Crime: (And Other Diatribes) (Radical Thinkers Classic Editions)

by HalFoster (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10 Jan 2011

ISBN 10: 1844676706
ISBN 13: 9781844676705

Media Reviews
Design and Crime is cool, measured, and steady, like a Gunsmoke shootout.A Greil Marcus
Author Bio
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. A co-editor of October magazine and books, he is the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic, and the author of Design and Crime, Recording, The Return of the Real, Compulsive Beauty and The Art-Architecture Complex.