The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
by Jean Baudrillard and Edward W. Said and Fredric Jameson and Kenneth Frampton and Rosalind E. Krauss and Hal Foster and Jürgen Habermas and Douglas Crimp and Craig Owens and Gregory Ulmer
For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said consider the full range of postmodern cultural production, from the writing of John Cage, to Cindy Sherman's film stills, to Barbara Kruger's collages. With a redesigned cover and a new afterword that situates the book in relation to contemporary criticism, The Anti-Aesthetic provides a strong introduction for newcomers and a point of reference for those already engaged in discussions of postmodern art, culture, and criticism. Includes a new afterword by Hal Foster and 12 black and white photographs.
Release Date:
March 31, 2002