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Art and politics: on the critic Hal Foster: do the ideas of the avant-garde still make sense in a multi-polar artworld?
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C: International Contemporary Art
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June 22, 2008
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- Perovic, Lydia
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The last ten years have witnessed an extraordinary boom in the art market. An emphasis on money or spectacle overshadows all other types of conversations about the value of contemporary art. For those in search of a different approach, Hal Foster has always been a voice to heed. In his articles in the London Review of Books, Artforum and The Nation, as well as his books and contributions to the already classic Art Since 1900 (Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin Buchloh, 2005), Foster shows why the questions we ought to ask about art are not how much it can be sold for or whether it enables underrepresented minorities to speak. And he still sees a use for the idea of an ...
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MOVE FORWARD...INTO THE PAST!(Stars)(Column)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
February 10, 2002 ;
787 words
......scrutiny touched off memories of times past. Hal Foster: Prince of Illustrators, Father of the...Productions; $19.95. ISBN: 1-887591-25-7. Take Hal Foster: Prince of Illustrators, Father of the...Strip by Brian M. Kane, for example. Now, Hal Foster might not be a household name to ...
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Outsider criticism
The Architects' Journal;
November 15, 2007 ;
Pallister, James;
787 words
......Outsider criticism American art critic Hal Foster discusses his forays into architectural criticism with James Pallister Hal Foster: Chat Rooms, Archival Spaces and...WC1, 30 October Pushing 6' 4'', Hal Foster is folded into a chair in a room...
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'Prince' is a favorite
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
January 5, 2005 ;
46 words
...In your comic section, Hal Foster's "Prince Valiant" has long been a favorite of mine. Each frame is a piece of art. The story is interspersed with fiction -- some...
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Entries
Artforum;
July 1, 2002 ;
Rimanelli, David;
787 words
......With no doubt unintentional humor, this piece is followed by Hal Foster's "The ABCs of Contemporary Design." But the most attention-getti...included Krauss and fellow editors Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, and George Baker, who sort of acts as chair. Also in attendance...
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Loos cannon
Artforum;
January 1, 2002 ;
Kwinter, Sanford;
787 words
...LOOS CANNON Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes), by Hal Foster. Now York: Verso. IM pages. $23. There is nothing the design...has always relied on such tracts as its motors of change. Hal Foster's Design and Crime is therefore exactly the kind of book the...
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BEST OF 2004: BOOKS
Artforum;
December 1, 2004 ;
Danto, Arthur C; Fraser, Andrea; Foster, Hal; Marshall, Kerry James; Et al;
787 words
......we need now. Andrea Fraser is an artist living in New York. Hal Foster Although Eric Michaud's Un Art de L'ternit: L'image et le...already this march is liberating thousands of people to death. Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton...
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A prince of a hero
Antiques & Collecting Magazine;
April 1, 1998 ;
Tefertillar, Robert L;
787 words
......a lake no white woman had ever seen. Hal Foster and his wife actually did discover a...Prince Valiant, adversity never deterred Hal Foster from his goals. He hopped on his bike...Zap," "Bang," or "Pow" shock words in a Hal Foster drawn strip to denote action. Prince...
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Time capsules: 1986-1990
Artforum;
April 1, 2003 ;
Rimanelli, David;
787 words
......year, the first Zone Books (ed. Jonathan Crary, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, and Sanford Kwinter) titles appear: Foucault/Blanchot and...Notable in that the catalogue essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Hal Foster largely pan the work exhibited. Museum Ludwig, founded by...
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Prosthetic Gods.(Book review)
The Art Bulletin;
March 1, 2006 ;
Cooper, Harry;
787 words
...HAL FOSTER Prosthetic Gods Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. 455 pp.; 15 color ills., 121 b/w. $35.00 Hal Foster has long pursued what might be called the psychohistorical analysis of twentieth-century art. Prosthetic Gods is both a retrospective...
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BLOCKBUSTER
Santa Fe Reporter;
June 28, 2006 ;
Jenkins, Mark;
646 words
......Charles Arnoldi, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Rolf Fehlbaum, Hal Foster, Mildred Friedman and Frank Gehry CCA 83 min. PB-13 Major...that the architect has his detractors. Princeton professor Hal Foster suggests that Gehry's museums upstage the art they contain...
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Valiant effort to honor cartoonist is paying off: A Skokie man's tenacity...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);
June 1, 2007 ;
787 words
......For nearly two decades, the legendary illustrator Harold Hal Foster, creator and artist of a comic-strip superhero revered by...to continue to draw Tarzan, Kane writes in the biography, Hal Foster: Prince of Illustrators, Father of the Adventure Strip. Neebe...
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Top art critic for city conference
Belfast Telegraph;
September 9, 2004 ;
Gary Grattanggrattan@belfasttelegraph.co.uk;
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......his first visit to Ireland when he attends a three-day conference hosted by the University of Ulster in Belfast this week.Hal Foster, who is the Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in the US, will be one of the keynote...
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On "The Matter of Time"
Artforum;
September 1, 2005 ;
Foster, Hal;
787 words
......nearly a decade ago. For the occasion, art historian HAL FOSTER spoke with the sculptor about his site-specific installation...and the artist's ever-evolving engagement with space. HAL FOSTER: "The Matter of Time," your permanent installation of...
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(book review)
Interior Design;
November 1, 2000 ;
Abercrombie, Stanley;
136 words
...Space Framed: Richard Gluckman Architect by Hal Foster New York: Monacelli 240 pages, 220 illustrations, 180 in color, $50 paperbound. Richard Gluckman's career, some of which we have...
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