New Releases by Hal Foster

Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin''s rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in several discrete bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903, these remarkable works on paper reflect Gauguin''s experiments with a range of media, from radically "primitive" woodcuts that extend from the sculptural gouging of his carved wood reliefs, to jewel-like watercolor monotypes and large mysterious transfer drawings. Gauguin''s creative process often involved repeating and recombining key motifs from one image to another, allowing them to metamorphose over time and across mediums. Printmaking in particular provided him with many new and fertile possibilities for transposing his imagery. Though Gauguin is best known as a pioneer of modernist painting, this publication reveals a lesser-known but arguably even more innovative aspect of his practice. Richly illustrated with more than 200 works, Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the artist''s radically experimental approach to techniques and demonstrates how his engagement with media other than painting--including sculpture, printmaking and drawing--ignited his creativity. Painter, printmaker, sculptor and ceramicist, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) left his job as a stockbroker in Paris for a peripatetic life traveling to Martinique, Brittany, Arles, Tahiti and, finally, the Marquesas Islands. After exhibiting with the Impressionists in Paris and acting as a leading voice in the Pont-Aven group, Gauguin''s efforts to achieve a "primitive" expression proved highly influential for the next generation of artists.

A key artist in the European post-war Avant-Garde, Asger Jorn worked within several, sometimes-conflicting art movements. He was central to the European development of expressive, abstract painting, and at the same time a founding member of the politically engaged Situationist International, where he criticised his colleagues in the avant-garde CoBrA movement for concentrating more on painterly style than on art''s political potential, but ultimately left the Situationist International when political objectives were set above artistic concerns. He believed images to be of more fundamental importance than words, but wrote a host of books himself. This lavishly illustrated volume addresses the contradictions in Jorn''s oeuvre as part of a deliberate artistic strategy, and presents the heterogeneity of his oeuvre as a significant feature. Chronologically arranged, the book includes beautiful illustrations and essays by leading Jorn experts that provide an overview of important themes and works in his artistic production. AUTHOR: SMK, The Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen is Denmark''s National Gallery and the major museum of fine arts in Denmark. It presents Jorn''s work in a monographic retrospective, an exhibition that unfolds his project in all its complexity. 300 illustrations

Uno de los grandes teóricos del arte de nuestros días analiza el estilo globalizado del arte y la arquitectura. Hal Foster, autor del aclamado Diseño y delito, sostiene en este nuevo y polémico ensayo que la fusión de arte y arquitectura es una característica definitoria de la cultura contemporánea. Para ello identifica y define un “estilo global” de la arquitectura tal como la practican los grandes nombres de hoy: Foster, Rogers y Piano, un estilo al que se le pueden buscar paralelismos en Le Corbusier, Gropius o Mies van der Rohe. Para cualquiera que se interese en el arte contemporáneo, sea cual fuere su conocimiento previo del tema, El complejo arte-arquitectura resultará un punto de referencia, una guía sugerente, una fuente autorizada, y en resumen una base segura para mirar, valorar y entender lo que nos rodea. Foster comienza por describirnos una tendencia curiosa: la arquitectura cada día parece más arte, y el arte cada día parece más arquitectura. Su crítica recorre ese “complejo” que da título al libro.

Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a "global style" of architecture-as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano-analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. More than any art, today''s global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the "art-architecture complex" provides invaluable insight into broader social and economic trajectories in urgent need of analysis.

A leading art theorist analyses the global style in art and architecture Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a "global style" of architecture-as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano-analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. More than any art, today''s global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the "art-architecture complex" provides invaluable insight into broade.

Preserving a monument goes hand in hand with destroying it. In order to preserve architecture, cultural monuments and relics, they are often re-located, allowing urban displacement to arise – leading to the disappearance of the concept of autonomous geography and archaeology.The dislocation of a monument does not only alter the history of its original location, but also leads to a radical re-interpretation of the monument itself.For his exhibition in 2011 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Cyprien Gaillard created a new work containing complex implications, which will only be revealed through an act of complete defiance.Similar to public amnesia, lost in the hopeless interaction with the monument, the gradual destruction becomes a part of the aesthetic of resistance. This catalogue depicts the gradual destruction of the sculpture.Included is a conversation with Cyprien Gaillard and Susanne Pfeffer.English and German text.

Chronicles the history of modern art during each year of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries through essays that explore a ground-breaking work, publication, exhibition opening, or other significant event.

This expanded edition contains new essays on the De Stijl movement, the use of mannequins and the automaton in Dada, and modernist graphic design between the wars, as well as discussions of the global emergence of Chinese artists, the influence of gaming and social networking, and the impact of the market on current practice.

This wide-ranging lecture on Roy Lichtenstein is a gripping engagement with the multiple aspects of the artist''s work: the conjunctions of art and technology, the satirical playing with previous modernist styles, and the sinister background of the military-industrial complex.

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American photographer Bing Wright (born 1958) marries modernist and conceptual leanings, creating highly formal work that explores the many roles of the photograph--as window or magnifying glass, marker of time or space for illusion. Known for his wide-ranging philosophical investigations and the stripped-down purity of his imagery, Wright can be simultaneously figurative and gorgeously abstract in his work, often calling on the gray light and rainy climate of his native Pacific Northwest. For example, in the Wet Windows series, part of his first body of work begun in 1988, random patterns of raindrops appear to pockmark the photographic surfaces. Deeply engaged with the technological and aesthetic history of the medium, Wright frequently references the work of other photographers from Edward Steichen''s roses to Man Ray''s tears. Bing Wright: Everyday Pictures surveys the artist''s work from 1989 to 2006 and includes a conversation between the artist and renowned art historian Hal Foster.

Reflexión sobre cómo imaginar un nuevo arte o arquitectura a través de artistas modernos clave.

El autor analiza el corazón mismo del surrealismo desde su lado más oscuro, a través de su relación con lo siniestro y la muerte. El estatuto de la obra de arte surrealista es el de la era del psicoanálisis. Los ensayos proponen una reconsideración del modernismo a la luz del shock capitalista y del desarrollo tecnológico, discutiendo el destino actual del surrealista.

Con una estructura clara año a año, los autores presentan más de un centenar de artículos que, centrados en un acontecimiento crucial –la creación de una obra seminal, la publicación de un texto importante o la inauguración de una exposición fundamental, por ejemplo– contienen un gran volumen de información sobre el arte desde 1900 hasta nuestros días. Se exploran en profundidad todos los puntos de inflexión y los avances clave de la modernidad y la posmodernidad, sin olvidar las frecuentes reacciones modernas que proponían visiones alternativas del arte y del mundo. Cada uno de los autores ha escrito una introducción en la que se ocupa de las metodologías en boga en la historia del arte, informando y aumentando el grado de comprensión del lector en lo tocante a su práctica actual. La estructura flexible y las numerosas referencias cruzadas permiten que éste trace su propio camino a lo largo del siglo y siga cualquiera de las muchas narraciones que se despliegan en el libro, ya sea la historia de un medio como la pintura, el desarrollo del arte en un país determinado, la influencia de un movimiento como el Surrealismo o la aparición de un corpus estilístico o conceptual como la abstracción o el Minimalismo. El texto está ilustrado con más de seiscientas obras canónicas (y anticanónicas) del siglo, la mayoría en color. Recuadros con información sobre acontecimientos, lugares y personajes clave, así como un glosario y una amplia bibliografía, completan este excepcional volumen. Además de las introducciones a sus enfoques teóricos, los autores también han tomado parte en dos mesas redondas –una situada a mediados de siglo, la otra al final del libro– en las que se discuten algunas de las cuestiones planteadas por las décadas precedentes, al tiempo que dirigen su mirada al arte del futuro. Destinada a convertirse en la referencia sobre la materia, «Arte desde 1900» es una lectura esencial para cualquier persona que quiera comprender las complejidades del arte en el mundo contemporáneo.

A landmark in art history and the most anticipated art publishing event of the new millennium. In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth century, an age when artists in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere sought to overturn the traditions of the past and expectations of the present in order to invent new practices and forms. Adopting a unique year-by-year approach, Foster, Krauss, Bois, and Buchloh present more than 50 short essays, each focusing on a crucial event--the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an artistic manifesto, the opening of a major exhibition--to tell the story of the dazzling diversity of practice and interpretation that characterizes the art of the period. All the turning points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the frequent and sustained antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions of art and the world. Illustrating the authors'' texts are more than 300 of the most important works of the century, many reproduced in full color. The book''s flexible structure and extensive cross-referencing allow readers to follow any one of the many narratives that unfold, whether that be the history of a medium such as photography or painting, the development of art in a particular country, the influence of a movement such as surrealism or feminism, or the emergence of a stylistic or conceptual category like abstraction or minimalism. Boxes give further background information on the important figures and issues. In their insightfulintroductions, the four authors explain the different methods of art history at work in the book, providing the reader with the conceptual tools for further study. A roundtable discussion at the close of the book considers the questions raised by the preceding decades and look ahead to the art of the future. A glossary of terms and concepts completes this extraordinary volume. 300 illustrations, 200 in color. This college edition also includes the Art 20 CD-ROM.

«Hoy día uno no necesita ser asquerosamente rico para proyectarse no sólo como diseñador sino como diseñado, sea el producto en cuestión la casa de uno o su negocio, sus mejillas caídas (cirugía estética) o su personalidad retraída (drogas de diseño), su memoria histórica (museos de diseño) o su futuro ADN (niños de diseño). ¿Podría ser este «sujeto diseñado» el resultado no deseado del tan cacareado «sujeto construido» de la cultura posmoderna? Una cosa parece clara: en el preciso momento en que se pensaba que el lazo consumista no podía estrecharse más en su lógica narcisista, lo hizo: el diseño es cómplice de un circuito casi perfecto de producción y consumo, sin mucho “margen de maniobra” para nada más.» Del marketing cultural a las relaciones históricas entre el arte contemporáneo y el museo moderno, pasando por la arquitectura espectáculo, el auge de las ciudades globales o las vicisitudes conceptuales de la historia del arte y los estudios visuales, «Diseño y delito» ofrece, con su estilo polémico, una serie de reflexiones que permitan iluminar las condiciones de la cultura crítica en nuestros días.

How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. These diverse figures were all fascinated by fictions of origin, either primordial and tribal or futuristic and technological. In this way, Foster argues, two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine. Foster begins with the primitivist fantasies of Gauguin and Picasso, which he examines through the Freudian lens of the primal scene. He then turns to the purist obsessions of the Viennese architect Loos, who abhorred all things primitive. Next Foster considers the technophilic subjects propounded by the futurist Marinetti and the vorticist Lewis. These "new egos" are further contrasted with the "bachelor machines" proposed by the dadaist Ernst. Foster also explores extrapolations from the art of the mentally ill in the aesthetic models of Ernst, Paul Klee, and Jean Dubuffet, as well as manipulations of the female body in the surrealist photography of Brassai, Man Ray, and Hans Bellmer. Finally, he examines the impulse to dissolve the conventions of art altogether in the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, the scatter pieces of Robert Morris, and the earthworks of Robert Smithson, and traces the evocation of lost objects of desire in sculptural work from Marcel Duchamp and Alberto Giacometti to Robert Gober. Although its title is drawn from Freud, Prosthetic Godsdoes not impose psychoanalytic theory on modernist art; rather, it sets the two into critical relation and scans the greater historical field that they share.

In the first half of this book, Hal Foster surveys our new ''political economy of design,'' exploring the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities. In the second half, he examines the historical relations of modern art and the 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. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime offers historical sketches and contemporary test-cases in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.

From one of his earliest projects for Heiner Friedrich and Philippa de Menil, founders of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, Richard Gluckman has closely aligned his work with the world of art and artists. Over the past twenty years, Gluckman has created distinctive spaces for numerous art galleries and museums and developed installations with such notable contemporary artists as Dan Flavin, Richard Serra, Jenny Holzer, and Walter de Maria. But Gluckman''s vision extends beyond art world commissions to include residential, commercial, and public projects. Deeply informed by the minimalist and site-specific artists Gluckman has encountered throughout his career, his work displays a consistent restraint that, as Gluckman himself writes, "allows for more emphasis on the basic architectural components: structure, scale, proportion, material, and light." The result is an architecture of powerful simplicity that has been applied to a wide variety of projects throughout the world. Space Framed: Richard Gluckman Architect presents thirty-eight buildings and projects with carefully composed photographs and detailed presentation drawings. Featured projects include various buildings for the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the renovation and addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum Competition, the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, and the Museo Picasso in Malaga, Spain. In addition to generous illustrations and an introduction by the architect, Space Framed features an insightful essay by noted critic Hal Foster.

Japan opened its exclusive press clubs, or kisha clubs, to foreign journalists in the summer of 1993. The club system had long been accused of fostering government management of the news, so both Japanese and non-Japanese critics of the clubs expressed hope that the presence of foreign reporters would lead to Japanese reporters being less reluctant to take on the establishment. This paper contends the critics'' hopes will be dashed--for four reasons.