New Releases by Hal Foster

Hal Foster is the author of Fail Better (2025), Prince Valiant Vol. 29 (2024), What Comes After Farce? (2024), Exit Interview (2024), Prince Valiant Vol. 28 (2024).

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Fail Better

release date: Feb 25, 2025
Fail Better
From the distinguished art critic and historian, vital essays on key artists and critics, revealing how they redefined art and criticism over the last six decades. “Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work spans disciplines and decades, brings this peripatetic perspective to contemporary art, art criticism, art history, and his own work over the past 50 years. In these 40 texts, Foster reviews artists from Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha; considers contemporaries from Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman to Jeremy Deller and Adam Pendleton; and traces the development of criticism since the early 1960s, with essays on such influential figures as Susan Sontag and Rosalind Krauss and institutions like Artforum magazine and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Taking his title from Beckett—“try again, fail again, fail better”—Foster notes that, etymologically, an essay is always an attempt, more or less failed. Critics fail artworks, because there can never be a definitive reading; art fails its historical moment, because it cannot resolve the contradictions that prompt it. But in these failures Foster finds historical consciousness, and with it the promise of future work, future illumination. In his “reckonings” he turns his own long history of criticism to account, and succeeds in conveying shifting concepts of art and criticism, the work of key artists and critics, and the relationships between criticism, theory, history, and politics over the last six decades.

Prince Valiant Vol. 29

release date: Dec 10, 2024
Prince Valiant Vol. 29
In the latest volume of Fantagraphics'' ambitious reprinting of Hal Foster''s immortal masterpiece, another milestone in the life of Prince Valiant.

What Comes After Farce?

release date: Oct 22, 2024
What Comes After Farce?
Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order that laughs away its own contradictions? How to mock leaders who thrive on the absurd? And why, in any event, offer more outrage to a media economy that feeds on the same? Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in What Comes after Farce?, delves into recent developments in art, criticism, and fiction under the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. Concerned first with the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, conspiracy, and kitsch, he moves on to consider the neoliberal makeover of aesthetic forms and art institutions during the same period. A final section surveys signal transformations in art, film, and writing. Among the phenomena explored are machine vision (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface), operational images (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information that pervades our everyday lives. If all this sounds dire, it is. In many respects we look out on a world that has moved, not only politically but also technologically, beyond our control. Yet Foster also sees possibility in the current debacle: the possibility to pressure the cracks in this order, to turn emergency into change.

Exit Interview

release date: Apr 23, 2024
Exit Interview
Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today. In Exit Interview, the prominent art critics and historians Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh discuss their intellectual foundations and the projects they''ve worked on together, from October magazine to Art Since 1900. Through three engaging conversations, Foster engages Buchloh on his early influences and aspirations, his formative years in Berlin, London, and Dusseldorf, and his career in North America, while exploring the impact of other art historians and critics. Buchloh candidly addresses his successes, critical significance, and unexplored avenues in art history, providing a unique window into his motivations and experiences. With a powerful postface by Buchloh, Exit Interview builds from biography and anecdote to important reflection on one’s critical life as a whole.

Prince Valiant Vol. 28

release date: Apr 02, 2024
Prince Valiant Vol. 28
The 28th volume of Fantagraphics'' ambitious reprinting of Hal Foster''s immortal masterpiece.

Adam Pendleton

release date: Feb 05, 2024
Adam Pendleton
Artist Adam Pendleton''s most ambitious catalog to date. Adam Pendleton: To Divide By, a fully illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same title, presents over 1,400 illustrations. It is edited by Meredith Malone, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, in conjunction with the artist, and it features essays by Malone and the scholars Hal Foster and Joshua Chambers-Letson, a conversation between Pendleton and the critic Isabelle Graw, and complete transcripts of two of the artist''s recent film portraits, presented for the first time.

Prince Valiant Vol. 27

release date: Dec 05, 2023
Prince Valiant Vol. 27
The action never lets up in the 27th volume of Fantagraphics'' exquisite reprinting of Hal Foster''s masterpiece, as Val embarks upon another treacherous journey that will test his mettle.

Prince Valiant Vols. 16 - 18

release date: Dec 05, 2023
Prince Valiant Vols. 16 - 18
Our series of special slipcased gift sets of the most visually opulent comic strip in the medium''s history, based on the King Arthur mythos, continues with Vols. 16 - 18 (1967-1972).

Prince Valiant Vols. 13-15

release date: Dec 06, 2022
Prince Valiant Vols. 13-15
Our series of special slipcased gift sets of the most visually opulent comic strip in the medium''s history, based on the King Arthur mythos, continues with Vols. 13-15 (1961-1966).

A era de ouro dos quadrinhos

release date: Feb 25, 2022
A era de ouro dos quadrinhos
Uma Magnífica antologia mostrando os personagens que marcaram a era de ouro dos quadrinhos Uma edição de luxo reunindo uma legião de personagens que se destacaram no nascedouro do quadrinho moderno. Um verdadeiro Túnel do Tempo apresentando O Fantasma e O Mandrake, ambas concebidas pelo lendário Lee Falk e seus artistas, Ray Moore e Phil Davis; As trapalhadas de O Reizinho, de Otto Soglow; a saga espacial de Flash Gordon, os contos policiais de Rip Kirby e Agente Secreto X-9, além da aventura selvagem de Jim das Selvas, pelas mãos de Alex Raymond; as tiras do soldado mais inapto de todos os tempos, Recruta Zero, de Mort Walker; do cartum Gato Maluco, de George Herriman, amado por intelectuais por seus toques poéticos; a epopeia cavaleiresca do Príncipe Valente, por Hal Foster; os encapetados Hans e Fritz, Sobrinhos do Capitão, de Harold Knerr; O ex-combatente da Segunda Guerra Buz Sawyer, de Roy Crane; o marinheiro mais faminto por espinafre do mundo, Popeye, de Elzie Crisler Segar; o aventureiro aviador Johnny Hazard, de Frank Robbins; o casal de novos ricos que bagunça a alta sociedade, Pafúncio e Marocas, de George McManus; além do lendário piloto, líder da empresa de aviação Horizontes Ilimitados, Steve Canyon, de Milton Caniff!

Charles Ray: Figure Ground

release date: Jan 30, 2022
Charles Ray: Figure Ground
This incisive publication explores the formal, conceptual, political, and technical aspects of the work of contemporary American artist Charles Ray. For Charles Ray (born 1953), sculpture is a way of thinking that informs his work across a wide range of media-from gelatin silver prints to porcelain, fiberglass, wood, and steel. Spanning the whole of his fifty-year career, Charles Ray: Figure Ground considers the artist''s intriguing, often unsettling sculptures from both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in relation to his early photographs and performances. It also explores his interest in Mark Twain''s 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Kelly Baum addresses patterns and patterning in Ray''s art, foregrounding his engagement with preexisting traditions, classicism among them, as well as charged issues around race, gender, and sexuality. Brinda Kumar investigates the modalities of touch that run through Ray''s work, while a reflection by Ray himself and a conversation between the artist and Hal Foster offer further insights into his multifaceted practice.

Prince Valiant Vol. 24

release date: Dec 07, 2021
Prince Valiant Vol. 24
There''s Merlin, Mordred, Maeve, Monsters, and Magic in this collection of the beloved Arthurian newspaper strip!

Prince Valiant Vol. 23

release date: May 18, 2021
Prince Valiant Vol. 23
Renowned painter and graphic novelist George Pratt (Batman, Sandman) introduces the volume. In these full-page, gorgeously illustrated newspaper strips, Prince Valiant journeys from the upper regions of the Alps to the bowels of the Earth on an allegorical quest for humility involving the mysterious Wanderer, a curse on the kingdom, monstrous imps, and a mystical casket. York, Lincoln, Colchester, and Londinium are sacked as Mordred leads an invasion across Britain, culminating in the siege of Camelot. Aleta''s pregnancy promises to bring a new child into the family, but the newly crowned Emperor Justinian plots to have the infant stolen at birth. Arn begins a dangerous courtship of the huntress maiden Maeve and embarks on quests to obtain the Sacred Ring of India and to find his lost newborn brother.

O que vem depois da farsa?

release date: Feb 26, 2021
O que vem depois da farsa?
Se à tragédia se segue a farsa, o que vem depois da farsa? Como o mundo da arte participa dos dilemas de sua época? O que a política da pós-verdade e da pós-vergonha implicam para artistas e críticos? O novo livro de Hal Foster traz uma análise ácida e urgente do contexto social, político e cultural desta segunda década do século XXI, implicando toda a rede de atores do mundo da arte: artistas, curadores, museus e instituições e críticos. Esboçados entre 2005 e 2020, período pontuado pela crise financeira de 2008 e, nos termos do crítico, a catástrofe representada por Trump, os ensaios reunidos neste volume discorrem sobre mudanças na arte, na crítica e na ficção diante do atual regime de terror e vigilância, desigualdade extrema, desastre climático e disrupção midiática. Para avaliar essa situação, ele analisa um conjunto variado de práticas e sondagens críticas. A primeira parte do volume enfoca a política cultural a partir do 11 de Setembro, incluindo o uso e o abuso do trauma, da paranoia e do kitsch. A segunda parte examina a remodelação neoliberal das instituições de arte nesse período, quando tanto o mercado como os museus se expandiram enormemente causando uma reação dos artistas a essas mudanças, de maneira crítica ou não. Por fim, um terceiro conjunto de ensaios contempla as transformações na arte, no cinema e na ficção recentes. Muito atento à cena contemporânea, Hal analisa polêmicas que atravessam toda a produção cultural. Um dos capítulos analisa o debate em torno do filme The Square: a arte da discórdia (2017), do diretor sueco Ruben Östlund, que sintetizaria um mundo da arte dividido entre rotina transgressora de um lado e vigilância ética do outro. Quando se volta para o fenômeno da curadoria, Foster identifica o surgimento de um curador mais ligado à indústria cultural, como “organizador de exposições”, coincidindo com a multiplicação de feiras e bienais de arte em todo o mundo. O crítico dá especial atenção à atividade do célebre curador e também teórico da curadoria contemporânea Hans Ulrich Obrist. São também alvos de sua inclemência os museus escultóricos, que aliaram contextos urbanos decadentes ou regiões precárias de uma cidade com uma arquitetura espetacular autoral e icônica, totalmente dissociada das questões locais, tornando-se emblemas midiáticos para atrair um turismo cultural. Se o capitalismo consumista deu nova cara às instituições e a uma parte da produção artística, viu-se igualmente uma reação política significativa, que assumiu protagonismo na cena artística. Nos últimos tempos, ressalta o autor, assistimos a uma revitalização parcial dessas instituições como resultado, sobretudo, de três movimentos: uma conscientização maior da ordem plutocrática que respalda boa parte das grandes organizações, graças ao Occupy Wall Street; uma agitação renovada contra a base colonialista dos museus importantes, tanto no acervo como no quadro de funcionários, graças ao Black Lives Matter; e uma crítica revigorada das estruturas persistentes de machismo e patriarcado, graças à irrupção do #metoo. Os exemplos do livro são norte-americanos, mas a amplitude dos fenômenos é mundial. Hal Foster se foca na intervenção de alguns artistas e aponta para a pequena influência que cada ator pode exercer para pressionar as instituições a responder a seus compromissos públicos, apesar dos interesses privados que as dirigem. Como abertura positiva para o futuro, ele vê a volta inesperada do museu e da universidade como possíveis locais de resgate da esfera pública, em que, ao menos em princípio, podem-se expressar críticas e propor alternativas.

Brutal Aesthetics

release date: Nov 17, 2020
Brutal Aesthetics
Jean Dubuffet and his brutes -- Georges Bataille and his caves -- Asger Jorn and his creatures -- Eduardo Paolozzi and his hollow gods -- Claes Oldenburg and his ray guns.

Prince Valiant Vol. 21

release date: Jun 23, 2020
Prince Valiant Vol. 21
In this volume of the beloved newspaper strip based on Arthurian legend, it''s election time for the King of Minstrels.

El retorno de lo real

release date: May 08, 2020
El retorno de lo real
Tras los paradigmas del arte-como-texto de los años setenta y el arte-como-simulacro de los ochenta, Hal Foster sostiene que somos testigos de un u0093retorno de lo realu0094, un retorno del arte y la teoría que buscan asentarse en los cuerpos reales y en los sitios sociales. El libro presenta una lectura original del arte y de la teoría de las tres últimas décadas, con especial atención a las polémicas conexiones entre ambos, y repiensa la relación entre las vanguardias históricas y las neovanguardias. El resultado es una genealogía acreditada del arte y la teoría, desde el minimalismo y el pop hasta el presente. El texto se completa con abundantes ilustraciones.

Gerhard Richter

release date: Jan 01, 2020
Gerhard Richter
Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post–WWII Germany, in both broad and very personal terms. This handsomely designed book spans the artist’s rich and varied oeuvre from the early 1960s to the present, including photo paintings, portraits, large-scale abstract series, and works on glass. Essays by leading experts on the artist illuminate Richter’s preoccupation with painting in relation to other modes of representation, and emphasize the ongoing importance of the medium’s formal and conceptual possibilities in contemporary art.

Design e crime

release date: Jan 01, 2020

Design & crime

release date: Jan 01, 2019
Design & crime
4e de couv.: Attention à vos désirs, ils pourraient bien se réaliser sous une forme cauchemardesque. Telle est, selon Hal Foster, la morale qui domine notre époque. Design et Crime part de ce constat : la postmodernité a bien accompli le rêve moderne d''une dissolution de l''art dans la vie, mais sous la forme aliénée d''une « indistinction » entre l''art et le design, entre l''oeuvre et la forme-marchandise. Ce qu''il advient de la culture quand elle se trouve ainsi placée sous le signe du marketing et du spectaculaire est précisément l''objet de ce livre. Interrogeant tour à tour l''architecture, le musée, l''histoire de l''art, la critique et l''esthétique, Hal Foster procède par repérages des antinomies propres à la culture contemporaine (art noble et culture populaire, provocation et compromission, exposition et réification, spectralité et traumatisme). La force de l''ouvrage est moins de prétendre les résoudre que de montrer qu''elles conditionnent les modalités du discours critique et les catégories par lesquelles nous pensons le présent. Il ne s''agit pas de « réanimer le cadavre » de la modernité, mais de diagnostiquer le vivant, fût-il mal en point.

Bad new days. Arte, critica, emergenza

release date: Jan 01, 2019

O retorno do real

release date: Mar 05, 2018
O retorno do real
Neste livro, Hal Foster interpreta a História da Arte como um sujeito regido pelo modelo psicanalítico lacaniano, no qual operaria o retorno do real, isto é, a alternância de antecipações e reconstruções de eventos traumáticos. Esse mecanismo se manifestaria tanto nos movimentos neovanguardistas no contexto histórico, como no próprio objeto principal da arte contemporânea – o real. Para Foster, que parte de uma concepção dialética inspirada por sua leitura de Marx, a neovanguarda, longe de ser uma mera repetição – tal qual a proposição de Peter Bürger exposta em Teoria da Vanguarda – seria uma recepção com resistência de algo que foi reprimido historicamente nas primeiras vanguardas. O construtivismo russo e o dadá duchampiano pós anos 60 seriam, portanto, um novo ciclo nos diversos ciclos que um evento histórico revolucionário acarreta. Outros exemplos seriam a teoria de Freud, seguido pela leitura de Lacan, e a de Marx, seguido por Althusser. Enquanto as vanguardas do início do século XX representaram um rompimento com as convenções estéticas, as neovanguardas direcionaram seu questionamento para a própria instituição da arte. Desse modo, elas representam um aprofundamento de sua versão anterior e cumprem um papel mais central na perspectiva da dimensão social da arte.

Prince Valiant, Volumes 1 - 3

release date: Dec 12, 2017
Prince Valiant, Volumes 1 - 3
This first-ever Prince Valiant boxed set collects over six years of Hal Foster Sunday strips along with tons of supplementary art, photos, and essays!

O complexo arte-arquitetura

release date: Apr 10, 2017
O complexo arte-arquitetura
Arte e arquitetura nunca estiveram tão próximas como atualmente. Mas seria a mescla positiva? Em seu livro, Hal Foster critica o mau uso da arte na arquitetura e a obsessão em juntar as duas em projetos arrojados, mas esvaziados de sentido. Já a condição de complexo, cujas significações abrangem desde o léxico psicanalítico até a designação de grandes aparatos sociais – como um "complexo industrial-militar" –, é, segundo o autor, um aspecto definidor da cultura atual e permite compreender fatores sociais e econômicos do mundo contemporâneo. Grandes nomes da arquitetura atual, como Norman Foster e Renzo Piano, são os protagonistas da obra. A partir deles, Hal Foster identifica um "estilo global", análogo ao Estilo Internacional da arquitetura moderna praticado por Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe e Walter Gropius. Se anteriormente os arquitetos se voltavam para a teoria, para Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, e outros escritórios contemporâneos, a arte passou a ser a inspiração primeira, embora seja utilizada apenas em termos de imagem em seus projetos. Em contraposição, a passagem da arte para a arquitetura é vista pelo autor de maneira mais positiva, sobretudo pela transição da ideia de objeto para a de espaço, como atesta a obra de Richard Serra. Clássico imediato de nossos dias, o livro é referência incontornável para o pensamento sobre a arte e a arquitetura contemporâneas e, nas palavras do próprio autor, "foi escrito em apoio a práticas que insistem na particularidade sensível da experiência no aqui e agora e que resistem à subjetividade atordoada e à sociabilidade atrofiada sustentadas pelo espetáculo." Além do texto de Foster, a edição traz entrevista realizada pelo autor com o artista Richard Serra.

Junkspace with Running Room

release date: Sep 13, 2016
Junkspace with Running Room
Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from the cultural critic Hal Foster. Junkspace describes the bleak and featureless world of capitalism, while Running Room seeks to find a space within the junk in which the individual might still exist.

Príncipe Valente

release date: Sep 05, 2016
Príncipe Valente
Por três décadas e meia, Harold Foster escreveu e desenhou a página semanal em cores de Príncipe Valente — unanimemente, a maior aventura em quadrinhos da história. A obra ganhou várias edições em forma de livro, porém, agora, pela primeira vez, foram usadas as provas originais das gravuras coloridas do autor, com recursos de digitalização do século 21. Com correção tecnológica de cores, este é o primeiro livro a fazer justiça à suntuosidade gráfica de Foster. Além de reimprimir a totalidade dos dois anos iniciais da tira de Príncipe Valente, cobrindo as primeiras aventuras emocionantes de Val, este volume também inclui uma entrevista pouco conhecida com seu criador, fotos raras e ilustrações, bem como um ensaio biográfico escrito por um especialista em Foster, Brian M. Kane.

Art Since 1900: 1945 to the present

release date: Jan 01, 2016
Art Since 1900: 1945 to the present
"Acclaimed as the definitive work on the subject, Art Since 1900 is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of art in the modern age."--Page [4] of cover.

Bad New Days

release date: Sep 08, 2015
Bad New Days
Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancire, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it. Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms "abject," "archival," "mimetic," and "precarious."

LOAC Essentials Volume 7: Tarzan The Original Dailies

release date: Jun 30, 2015
LOAC Essentials Volume 7: Tarzan The Original Dailies
In January 1929, Hal Foster, creator of Prince Valiant, had his first published newspaper strip art with the debut of Tarzan, a comic that would produce more that ten thousand strips before switching to reprints in 1972. It was Foster who illustrated all 60 episodes of the strip''s adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough''s seminal novel, Tarzan of the Apes. Now, LOAC Essentials brings you all of Foster''s first comics work, reproduced from ERB''s syndicate proofs. In addition, this book includes adaptations of The Return of Tarzan, Beasts of Tarzan, and Son of Tarzan, each drawn by Rex Maxon. Get ready for the first 300 daily Tarzan comics ever produced, all together in a single, affordable package! LOAC Essentials reprints the daily newspaper strips that are essential to comics history, in a format that preserves as closely as possible the original reader experience. By reproducing the strips one per page in an oblong format, it allows us to have the experience of reading the comics one day at a time. Each volume contains seminal strips that are unique creations in their right and also contributed to the advancement of the medium, along with panel-by-panel annotations.

The First Pop Age

release date: Feb 23, 2014
The First Pop Age
Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more intensely than they? This book presents an interpretation of Pop art through the work of these Pop Five.
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