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* ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/78bc6df9d209e0470e0108f82718c4e9#0.01 Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency]'', Verso, 2015, 208 pp. [http://www.versobooks.com/books/1961-bad-new-days] | * ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/78bc6df9d209e0470e0108f82718c4e9#0.01 Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency]'', Verso, 2015, 208 pp. [http://www.versobooks.com/books/1961-bad-new-days] | ||
− | ===Essays | + | ===Essays=== |
+ | * "The Problem of Pluralism", ''Art in America'', Jan 1982; rev. as "Against Pluralism", in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 13-32. | ||
+ | ** ''[http://www.criterios.es/pdf/fosterpluralismo.pdf Contra el pluralismo]'', trans. Desiderio Navarro, Valencia: Episteme, 1998, 24 pp; repr. in ''La Gaceta de Cuba'' 5, La Habana, Sep-Oct 2000, pp 34-39. {{es}} | ||
+ | * "Between Modernism and the Media", ''Art in America'' (Summer 1982); rev. in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 33-58. | ||
+ | * "Subversive Signs", ''Art in America'' (Nov 1982); rev. in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 99-118. | ||
+ | * "The Expressive Fallacy", ''Art in America'' (Jan 1983); rev. in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 59-78. | ||
+ | * "The Art of Spectacle", ''Art in America'' (Apr 1983); rev. as "Contemporary Art and Spectacle", in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 79-98. | ||
+ | * "For a Concept of the Political in Art", ''Art in America'' (Apr 1984); rev. as "For a Concept of the Political in Contemporary Art", in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 139-156. | ||
+ | * "(Post)Modern Polemics", ''New German Critique'' 33 (Fall 1984); repr. in ''Perspecta'' 21 (1984); rev. in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 121-138. | ||
+ | * "The 'Primitive' Unconscious of Modern Art, or White Skin Black Masks", ''October'' 34 (Fall 1985); rev. in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 181-210. | ||
+ | * "Readings in Cultural Resistance", in Foster, ''[[Media:Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Spectacle_and_Cultural_Politics.pdf|Recodings]]'', 1985, pp 157-180. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778488 "The 'Primitive' Unconscious of Modern Art"], ''October'' 34 (Autumn 1985), pp 45-70. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778724 "Armor Fou"], ''October'' 56: High/Low: Art and Mass Culture (Spring 1991), pp 64-97. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778871 "Convulsive Identity"], ''October'' 57 (Summer 1991), pp 18-54. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778862 "Postmodernism in Parallax"], ''October'' 63 (Winter 1993), pp 3-20. | ||
* [[Media:Foster_Hal_1994_Whats_Neo_about_the_Neo-Avant-Garde.pdf|"What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde?"]], ''October'' 70 (1994), pp 5-32. | * [[Media:Foster_Hal_1994_Whats_Neo_about_the_Neo-Avant-Garde.pdf|"What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde?"]], ''October'' 70 (1994), pp 5-32. | ||
** [http://vvp.avu.cz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sesit8-foster.pdf "Co je nového na neovantgardě?"], trans. David Kulhánek, ''Sešit'' 8, Prague, 2010, pp 58-94. {{cz}} | ** [http://vvp.avu.cz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sesit8-foster.pdf "Co je nového na neovantgardě?"], trans. David Kulhánek, ''Sešit'' 8, Prague, 2010, pp 58-94. {{cz}} | ||
* [[Media:Foster_Hal_1995_The_Artist_as_Ethnographer.pdf|"The Artist as Ethnographer?"]], in ''The Traffic in Culture'', eds. George Marcus and Fred Myers, University of California Press, 1995, pp 302-309. | * [[Media:Foster_Hal_1995_The_Artist_as_Ethnographer.pdf|"The Artist as Ethnographer?"]], in ''The Traffic in Culture'', eds. George Marcus and Fred Myers, University of California Press, 1995, pp 302-309. | ||
+ | * [http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/visualarts/Foster-DeathInAmerica-Warhol-October-1996.pdf "Death in America"], ''October'' 75 (Winter 1996), pp 36-59. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778962 "The Archive without Museums"], ''October'' 77 (Summer 1996), pp 97-119. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778908 "Obscene, Abject, Traumatic"], ''October'' 78 (Autumn 1996), pp 106-124. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/779236 "An Art of Missing Parts"], ''October'' 92 (Spring 2000), pp 128-156. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n23/hal-foster/the-great-us-election-disaster "The Great US Election Disaster: The 2000 US Presidential Election"], ''London Review of Books'' 22:23, 30 Nov 2000, pp 36-37. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/779085 "Blinded Insights: On the Modernist Reception of the Art of the Mentally Ill"], ''October'' 97 (Summer 2001), pp 3-30. | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/779099 "The ABCs of Contemporary Design"], ''October'' 100 (Spring 2002), pp 191-199. | ||
+ | ** [http://www.revistasculturales.com/articulos/62/arquitectura-viva/134/1/voces-en-vanguardia-peque-o-diccionario-de-ideas-del-dise-o-actual.html "Voces en vanguardia. Pequeño diccionario de ideas del diseño actual"], ''Arquitectura Viva'' 93, Nov-Dec 2003, pp 23-31. {{es}} | ||
+ | ** [http://dspace.usc.es/bitstream/10347/6337/1/pg_059-072_quintana3.pdf "Un breve diccionario de las ideas actuales sobre diseño"], trans. Invoca, ''Quintana'' 3 (2004), pp 57-70. {{es}} | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/779125 "Archives of Modern Art"], ''October'' 99 (Winter 2002), pp 81-95. | ||
* [http://newleftreview.org/II/19/hal-foster-on-the-first-pop-age "On the First Pop Age"], ''New Left Review'' 19, Jan-Feb 2003. | * [http://newleftreview.org/II/19/hal-foster-on-the-first-pop-age "On the First Pop Age"], ''New Left Review'' 19, Jan-Feb 2003. | ||
+ | ** [http://newleftreview.org/article/download_pdf?language=es&id=2434 "Acerca de la primera era del ''pop art''"], ''New Left Review ES'' 19, Jan-Feb 2003, pp 68-87. | ||
+ | * "In New York: plans for Ground Zero", ''London Review of Books'' 25:6, 20 Mar 2003, pp 16-17. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n06/hal-foster/in-new-york] | ||
+ | * [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/3397692 "Dada Mime"], ''October'' 105: Dada (Summer 2003), pp 166-176. | ||
* [[Media:Foster_Hal_2004_An_Archival_Impulse.pdf|"An Archival Impulse"]], ''October'' 110 (Fall 2004), pp 3-22. | * [[Media:Foster_Hal_2004_An_Archival_Impulse.pdf|"An Archival Impulse"]], ''October'' 110 (Fall 2004), pp 3-22. | ||
* [[Media:Foster_Hal_2004_Vision_Quest_The_Cinema_of_Harun_Farocki.pdf|"Vision Quest: The Cinema of Harun Farocki"]], ''Artforum'' (Nov 2004), pp 156-161 & 250. | * [[Media:Foster_Hal_2004_Vision_Quest_The_Cinema_of_Harun_Farocki.pdf|"Vision Quest: The Cinema of Harun Farocki"]], ''Artforum'' (Nov 2004), pp 156-161 & 250. | ||
+ | * "Yellow Ribbons: kitsch in Bush’s America", ''London Review of Books'' 27:13, 7 Jul 2005, pp 29-31. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n13/hal-foster/yellow-ribbons] | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n24/hal-foster/its-modern-but-is-it-contemporary "It’s Modern but is it contemporary?: The Trouble with MoMA"], ''London Review of Books'' 26:24, 16 Dec 2004, pp 23-25. | ||
+ | * "The Medium is the Market: Business Art", ''London Review of Books'' 30:19, 9 Oct 2008, pp 23-24. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/hal-foster/the-medium-is-the-market] | ||
* editor, [[Media:Foster_Hal_ed_2009_Questionnaire_on_the_Contemporary.pdf|"Questionnaire on the Contemporary"]], ''October'' 130 (Fall 2009), pp 3-124. | * editor, [[Media:Foster_Hal_ed_2009_Questionnaire_on_the_Contemporary.pdf|"Questionnaire on the Contemporary"]], ''October'' 130 (Fall 2009), pp 3-124. | ||
** [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/contemporary-extracts/ "Contemporary Extracts"], ''e-flux'' 12 (1/2010). | ** [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/contemporary-extracts/ "Contemporary Extracts"], ''e-flux'' 12 (1/2010). | ||
+ | * "Towards a Grammar of Emergency", ''New Left Review'' 68, Mar-Apr 2011, pp 105-118. [http://newleftreview.org/II/68/hal-foster-towards-a-grammar-of-emergency] | ||
+ | ** [http://newleftreview.org/article/download_pdf?language=es&id=2888 "Hacia una gramatica de la emergencia"], ''New Left Review ES'' 68, Mar-Apr 2011, pp 93-104. {{es}} | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n17/hal-foster/the-last-column "The Last Column: Remnants of 9/11"], ''London Review of Books'' 33:17, 8 Sep 2011, p 17. On the 9/11 Museum. | ||
+ | * "On Richard Hamilton", ''London Review of Books'' 33:19, 6 Oct 2011, p 37. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n19/hal-foster/on-richard-hamilton] | ||
* [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/12/artseen/post-critical "Post-Critical"], ''The Brooklyn Rail'', 10 Dec 2012. On Rancière and Latour. | * [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/12/artseen/post-critical "Post-Critical"], ''The Brooklyn Rail'', 10 Dec 2012. On Rancière and Latour. | ||
− | * [http://tomhuhn.com/includes/pdf/chair-readings/2013/11-2013.pdf "What's the Problem with Critical Art?"], '' | + | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n06/hal-foster/after-the-white-cube "After the White Cube"], ''London Review of Books'' 37:6, 19 Mar 2015, pp 25-26. Asks what art museums are for. |
+ | |||
+ | ; More | ||
+ | * [http://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicResults?filter=jid%3A10.2307%2Fj100552&hp=100&Query=au:%22Hal+Foster%22&so=new&si=1 Essays in ''October''] | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/hal-foster Articles in ''London Review of Books''] | ||
+ | * [http://newleftreview.org/authors/hal-foster Articles in ''New Left Review''], [http://newleftreview.es/authors/hal-foster (in spanish)] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Conversations, interviews=== | ||
+ | * with Rosalind Krauss, Silvia Kolbowski, Miwon Kwon, and Benjamin Buchloh, [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/778752 "The Politics of the Signifier: A Conversation on the Whitney Biennial"], ''October'' 66 (Autumn 1993), pp 3-27 | ||
+ | * with Renée Green, Mitchell Kane, Miwon Kwon, John Lindell, and Helen Molesworth, [[Media:Foster_Green_Kane_Kwon_Lindell_Molesworth_1994_On_Site_Specificity_A_Discussion.pdf|"On Site Specificity: A Discussion"]], ''Documents'' 4-5, New York, 1994. | ||
+ | * with Benjamin Buchloh, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Denis Hollier, and Helen Molesworth, [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/778965 "The Politics of the Signifier II: A Conversation on the 'Informe' and the Abject"], ''October'' 67 (Winter 1994), pp 3-21. | ||
+ | * with Rosalind Krauss, Denis Hollier, Annette Michelson, Silvia Kolbowski, Martha Buskirk, and Benjamin Buchloh, [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778987 "The Reception of the Sixties"], ''October'' 69 (Summer 1994), pp 3-21. | ||
+ | * with Silvia Kolbowski, Mignon Nixon, Mary Kelly, Liz Kotz, Simon Leung, and Ayisha Abraham, [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778741 "A Conversation on Recent Feminist Art Practices"], ''October'' 71: feminist issueS (Winter 1995), pp 49-69. | ||
+ | * with Tim Dean and Kaja Silverman, [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/778995 "A Conversation with Leo Bersani"], ''October'' 82 (Autumn 1997), pp 3-16. | ||
+ | * with Denis Hollier, Silvia Kolbowski, and Rosalind Krauss, [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/779206 "The MOMA Expansion: A Conversation with Terence Riley"], ''October'' 84 (Spring 1998), pp 3-30. | ||
+ | * with George Baker, Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin Buchloh, Andrea Fraser, David Joselit, James Meyer, Robert Storr, John Miller, and Helen Molesworth, [http://sci-hub.io/doi/10.2307/779100 "Round Table: The Present Conditions of Art Criticism"], ''October'' 100: Obsolescence (Spring 2002), pp 200-228. | ||
+ | * with Malcolm Turvey, Chrissie Iles, George Baker, Matthew Buckingham, Anthony McCall, [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/3397582 "Round Table: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art"], ''October'' 104 (Spring 2003), pp 71-96. | ||
+ | * with Stan Allen, [http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/3397631 "A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton"], ''October'' 106 (Autumn 2003), pp 35-58. | ||
+ | * with Marquard Smith, [https://academia.edu/8361177/ "Polemics, Postmodernism, Immersion, Militarized Space"], ''Journal of Visual Culture'' 3 (2004), pp 320-335. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Reviews=== | ||
+ | ====Exhibition reviews==== | ||
+ | <div class="dpl" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:.95em"> | ||
+ | ; in ''London Review of Books'' | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n11/hal-foster/at-diabeacon "At Dia:Beacon"], 5 Jun 2003. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n24/hal-foster/at-the-guggenheim "At the Guggenheim: Pop Surrealism"], 18 Dec 2003. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n17/hal-foster/at-the-whitney "At the Whitney: Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Sublime"], 2 Sep 2004. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n05/hal-foster/in-central-park "In Central Park: ''The Gates''"], 3 Mar 2005. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n15/hal-foster/in-venice "In Venice: at the Biennale"], 4 Aug 2005. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n21/hal-foster/at-the-guggenheim "At the Guggenheim: Russian Art"], 3 Nov 2005. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n05/hal-foster/at-the-guggenheim "At the Guggenheim: David Smith"], 9 Mar 2006. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n21/hal-foster/at-the-hayward "At the Hayward: ‘The Painting of Modern Life’"], 1 Nov 2007. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n10/hal-foster/at-the-grand-palais "At the Grand Palais: Richard Serra"], 22 May 2008. | ||
+ | * "At Inverleith House: Richard Hamilton", 14 Aug 2008. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/hal-foster/at-inverleith-house] | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n22/hal-foster/at-the-hayward "At the Hayward: Ed Ruscha"], 19 Nov 2009. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n02/hal-foster/at-moma "At MoMA: Diego Rivera"], 26 Jan 2012. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n09/hal-foster/at-moma "At MoMA: Cindy Sherman"], 10 May 2012. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/hal-foster/at-moma "At MoMA: ‘Inventing Abstraction’"], 7 Feb 2013. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n06/hal-foster/at-the-guggenheim "At the Guggenheim"], 20 Mar 2014. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n12/hal-foster/at-moma "At MoMA: Sigmar Polke"], 19 Jun 2014. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n15/hal-foster/at-the-whitney "At the Whitney: Jeff Koons"], 31 Jul 2014. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Book reviews==== | ||
+ | <div class="dpl" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:.95em"> | ||
+ | * [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xsICEOF82v4J:https://newleftreview.org/article/download_pdf "Art Agonistes"], ''New Left Review'' 8, Mar-Apr 2001, pp 140-149. Review of Newman's ''Challenging Art: Artforum''. [http://newleftreview.org/II/8/hal-foster-art-agonistes] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ; in ''London Review of Books'' | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n18/hal-foster/slumming-with-rappers-at-the-roxy "Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy"], 21 Sep 2000. Review of Seabrook's ''Nobrow''. | ||
+ | * "Hey, that’s me: Bruce Mau", 5 Apr 2001. Review of Mau's ''Life Style''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n07/hal-foster/hey-thats-me] | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n16/hal-foster/why-all-the-hoopla "Why all the hoopla?: Frank Gehry"], 23 Aug 2001. Review of Cohen's ''Frank Gehry''. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n23/hal-foster/bigness "Bigness: Rem Koolhaas"], 29 Nov 2001. Review of Koolhaas's ''Harvard Design School Guide'' and ''Great Leap Forward''. | ||
+ | * "Andy Paperbag: Andy Warhol", 21 Mar 2002. Review of Koestenbaum's ''Andy Warhol''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n06/hal-foster/andy-paperbag] | ||
+ | * "Expendabilia: Reyner Banham", 9 May 2002. Review of Whiteley's ''Reyner Banham''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n09/hal-foster/expendabilia] | ||
+ | * "Pop Eye: Handmade Readymades", 22 Aug 2002. Review of Lobel's ''Image Duplicator''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n16/hal-foster/pop-eye] | ||
+ | * "Nutty Professors: ‘Lingua Franca’", 8 May 2003. Review of Star's ''Quick Studies''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n09/hal-foster/nutty-professors] | ||
+ | * "Long Live Aporia!: William Gaddis", 24 Jul 2003. Review of Gaddis' ''Agapē Agape'' and ''The Rush for Second Place''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n14/hal-foster/long-live-aporia] | ||
+ | * [[Media:Foster_Hal_2003_Arty_Party.pdf|"Arty Party: from the ‘society of spectacle’ to the ‘society of extras’"]], 4 Dec 2003. Review of Bourriaud's ''Relational Aesthetics'' and ''Postproduction'' and Obrist's ''Interviews I''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n23/hal-foster/arty-party] | ||
+ | * "Go, Modernity: Norman Foster", 22 Jun 2006. Review of two books of Foster. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n12/hal-foster/go-modernity] | ||
+ | * "Wine Flasks in Bordeaux, Sail Spires in Cardiff: Richard Rogers", 19 Oct 2006. Review of Powell's books on Rogers. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n20/hal-foster/wine-flasks-in-bordeaux-sail-spires-in-cardiff] | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n18/hal-foster/global-style "Global Style: Renzo Piano"], 20 Sep 2007. Review of Jodidio's and Buchanan's books on Piano. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n05/hal-foster/crack-open-the-shells "Crack Open the Shells: The Situationist Moment"], 12 Mar 2009. Review of Debord's ''Correspondence''. | ||
+ | * "I am the decider: Agamben, Derrida and Santner", 17 Mar 2011. Review of Derrida's ''The Beast and the Sovereign''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n06/hal-foster/i-am-the-decider] | ||
+ | * "Preposterous Timing", 8 Nov 2012. Review of Nagel's ''Medieval Modern'' and Powell's ''Depositions''. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n21/hal-foster/preposterous-timing] | ||
+ | * [http://tomhuhn.com/includes/pdf/chair-readings/2013/11-2013.pdf "What's the Problem with Critical Art?"], 10 Oct 2013. Review of Rancière's ''Aisthesis''. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n11/hal-foster/exhibitionists "Exhibitionists"], 4 Jun 2015. Review of Obrist's ''Ways of Curating'' and Balzer's ''Curationism''. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
==Interviews== | ==Interviews== |
Revision as of 14:05, 29 December 2015
Harold Foss "Hal" Foster (1955) is an American art critic and historian. He is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton and co-editor of October.
Contents
Works
(in English unless noted)
Books
- The Mink's Cry, Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1982. A children's story; illustrated by Milo Mottola. [1]
- editor, The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1983, xvi+159 pp, PDF; repr., New York: New Press, 2002. Essays by Foster (preface), Habermas, Frampton, Krauss, Crimp, Owens, Ulmer, Jameson, Baudrillard, Said. Reviews list.
- La posmodernidad, Barcelona: Kairós, 1985, 238 pp. (Spanish)
- Han bigaku: posuto modan no shosō [反美学 : ポストモダンの諸相], Tokyo: Keisō Shobō, 1987, 308 pp. (Japanese)
- Fan mei xue: hou xian dai wen hua lun ji [反美學 : 後現代文化論集], Xin dian shi: Li xu, 1998, 270 pp. (Chinese)
- Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics, Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1985. A collection of criticism published 1982-85 mostly in Art in America and October, 9 texts, revised.
- Recodificação: arte, espetáculo, política cultural, São Paulo: Paulista, 1996, 295 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- editor, Discussions in Contemporary Culture, Number One, Seattle: Bay Press, and New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1987, 172 pp, OL. [2] Based on a series of 6 weekly discussions organised by Foster at Dia Art Foundation in NYC, 10 Feb-17 Mar 1987. Texts by Crow, Rosler, Owens, Crimp, Kruger, Wodiczko, Fried, Krauss, Buchloh, Graham, Rankin, Kolbowski, Clifford, Dominguez, Minh-ha, Jardine, Feher.
- editor, Vision and Visuality (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, 2), Seattle: Bay Press, and New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1988, 134 pp. [3] [4] Based on a day-long symposium held on 30 Apr 1988 at Dia's exhibition space in NYC. Texts by Jay, Crary, Krauss, Bryson, Rose.
- Shikakuron [視覚論], trans. Kurenuma Norihisa, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2000, 215 pp. (Japanese)
- Compulsive Beauty, MIT Press, 1993, 344 pp. [5] A deconstructive reading of surrealism; based on author's dissertation. Reviews: Elkins (1994), Genova (1996), O'Brien (1997).
- The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century, MIT Press, 1996, 321 pp. Chs. 1-2, Chs. 5-7, [6] Suggests that after the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, we are now witness to a return to the real—to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social sites.
- El retorno de lo real: la vanguardia a finales de siglo, trans. Alfredo Brotons Muñoz, Madrid: Akal, 2001. (Spanish)
- Silchae ŭi kwihwan: 20-segi mal ui Abanggarŭdŭ, Pusan Kwangyŏksi: Kyŏsŏng Taehakkyo Ch'ulp'anbu, 2003, 362 pp. (Korean)
- Le retour du réel: la situation actuelle de l'avant-garde, trans. Yves Cantaine, Frank Pierobon and Daniel Vander Gucht, Brussels: La lettre volée, 2005, 277 pp. (French)
- Il ritorno del reale: l'avanguardia alla fine del Novecento, Milan: Postmedia, 2006, 255 pp. (Italian)
- Gerçeğin geri dönüşü: yüzyılın sonunda avangard, trans. Esin Hoşsucu, Istanbul: Ayrıntı, 2009, 282 pp. (Turkish)
- Powrót realnego: awangarda u schyłku XX wieku, trans. Mateusz Borowski and Małgorzata Sugiera, Kraków: Universitas, 2010, 281 pp. [7] (Polish)
- editor, with Gordon Hughes, Richard Serra, MIT Press, 2000, 205 pp. Essays by Buchloh, Michelson, Bois, Crimp, Krauss, Foster.
- Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes), Verso, 2002, 176 pp; Verso, 2010, 192 pp. [8] On "political economy of design: .. the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities." Parts were first published in the London Review of Books. Reviews: Mudede (2002), Howard (2003), Atzmon (2006).
- Design & crime, Milan: Postmedia, 2002, 141 pp. (Italian)
- Diseño y delito y otras diatribas, trans. Alfredo Brotons Muñoz, Madrid: Akal, 2004, 176 pp. (Spanish)
- Tasarım ve suç: müze - mimarlık - tasarım, trans. Elçin Gen, Istanbul: İletişim, 2004, 198 pp. (Turkish)
- Dizajn i zločin (i druge polemike), trans. Goran Vujasinović, Zagreb: V.B.Z., 2006, 156 pp. (Croatian)
- Design & crime, trans. Christophe Jacquet, Laure Manceau, Gauthier Herrmann, et al., Paris: Les Prairies ordinaires, 2008, 184 pp. (French)
- Dezain to hanzai [デザインと犯罪], trans. Igarashi Kōji, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2011, 267 pp. (Japanese)
- Design & Verbrechen und andere Schmähreden, trans. Thomas Atzert, Berlin: Tiamat 2012, 222 pp. (German)
- Design a zločin, Prague: Fra, forthcoming. (Czech)
- with Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 704 pp, IA; 2nd ed., rev., 2012, 816 pp. [9] Reviews: Bishop (2005), Collings (2005), Gewen (2005), Dahlberg (2006).
- Arte desde 1900: modernidad, antimodernidad, posmodernidad, trans. Fabián Chueca, Francisco López and Alfredo Brotons Mun̋oz, Madrid: Akal, 2006, 704 pp. (Spanish)
- Arte dal 1900 : modernismo, antimodernismo, postmodernismo, trans. Elio Grazioli, Bologna: Zanichelli, 2006, 704 pp. (Italian)
- Umění po roce 1900: modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, trans. Josef Hrdlička, Irena Ellis and Jitka Sedláčková, Prague: Slovart, 2007, 704 pp. (Czech)
- Prosthetic Gods, MIT Press, 2004, 455 pp. Argues that two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine. Reviews: Cohen (2005), Bowring (2005), Hopkins (2005), Cooper (2006).
- Dioses prostéticos, trans. Alfredo Brotons Muñoz, Madrid: Akal, 2008, 383 pp. (Spanish)
- editor, with Mark Francis, Pop, London: Phaidon, 2005. [10]
- The Art-Architecture Complex, Verso, 2011, 316 pp, EPUB. [11] Argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture; 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. Reviews: Moore (2011), Long (2012), Cava (2012), Home (2013), Petts (2014).
- El complejo arte-arquitectura, trans. José Adrián Vitier, Madrid: Turner, 2013, 346 pp. (Spanish)
- Sanat mimarlık kompleksi: Küreselleşme çağında sanat, mimarlık ve tasarımın birliği, trans. Serpil Özaloğlu, Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2013, 365 pp. (Turkish)
- Āto kenchiku fukugōtai [アート建築複合態], trans. Takimoto Masashi, Tokyo: Kajimashuppankai, 2014, 374 pp. (Japanese)
- The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, Princeton University Press, 2012, 352 pp. [12] [13] Suggests that the work of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter and Ruscha in the mid-to-late 1950s registers most suggestively a shift in the status of image and subjectivity. Reviews: Wagner (2012), Ionescu (2014).
- Daiichi poppu jidai : hamiruton rikutensutain uōhōru rihitā rushē aruiwa poppu āto o meguru itsutsu no imēji [第一ポップ時代 : ハミルトン, リクテンスタイン, ウォーホール, リヒター, ルシェー, あるいはポップアートをめぐる五つのイメージ], trans. Nakano Tsutomu, Tokyo: Kawadeshobōshinsha, 2014. (Japanese)
- Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, Verso, 2015, 208 pp. [14]
Essays
- "The Problem of Pluralism", Art in America, Jan 1982; rev. as "Against Pluralism", in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 13-32.
- Contra el pluralismo, trans. Desiderio Navarro, Valencia: Episteme, 1998, 24 pp; repr. in La Gaceta de Cuba 5, La Habana, Sep-Oct 2000, pp 34-39. (Spanish)
- "Between Modernism and the Media", Art in America (Summer 1982); rev. in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 33-58.
- "Subversive Signs", Art in America (Nov 1982); rev. in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 99-118.
- "The Expressive Fallacy", Art in America (Jan 1983); rev. in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 59-78.
- "The Art of Spectacle", Art in America (Apr 1983); rev. as "Contemporary Art and Spectacle", in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 79-98.
- "For a Concept of the Political in Art", Art in America (Apr 1984); rev. as "For a Concept of the Political in Contemporary Art", in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 139-156.
- "(Post)Modern Polemics", New German Critique 33 (Fall 1984); repr. in Perspecta 21 (1984); rev. in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 121-138.
- "The 'Primitive' Unconscious of Modern Art, or White Skin Black Masks", October 34 (Fall 1985); rev. in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 181-210.
- "Readings in Cultural Resistance", in Foster, Recodings, 1985, pp 157-180.
- "The 'Primitive' Unconscious of Modern Art", October 34 (Autumn 1985), pp 45-70.
- "Armor Fou", October 56: High/Low: Art and Mass Culture (Spring 1991), pp 64-97.
- "Convulsive Identity", October 57 (Summer 1991), pp 18-54.
- "Postmodernism in Parallax", October 63 (Winter 1993), pp 3-20.
- "What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde?", October 70 (1994), pp 5-32.
- "Co je nového na neovantgardě?", trans. David Kulhánek, Sešit 8, Prague, 2010, pp 58-94. (Czech)
- "The Artist as Ethnographer?", in The Traffic in Culture, eds. George Marcus and Fred Myers, University of California Press, 1995, pp 302-309.
- "Death in America", October 75 (Winter 1996), pp 36-59.
- "The Archive without Museums", October 77 (Summer 1996), pp 97-119.
- "Obscene, Abject, Traumatic", October 78 (Autumn 1996), pp 106-124.
- "An Art of Missing Parts", October 92 (Spring 2000), pp 128-156.
- "The Great US Election Disaster: The 2000 US Presidential Election", London Review of Books 22:23, 30 Nov 2000, pp 36-37.
- "Blinded Insights: On the Modernist Reception of the Art of the Mentally Ill", October 97 (Summer 2001), pp 3-30.
- "The ABCs of Contemporary Design", October 100 (Spring 2002), pp 191-199.
- "Voces en vanguardia. Pequeño diccionario de ideas del diseño actual", Arquitectura Viva 93, Nov-Dec 2003, pp 23-31. (Spanish)
- "Un breve diccionario de las ideas actuales sobre diseño", trans. Invoca, Quintana 3 (2004), pp 57-70. (Spanish)
- "Archives of Modern Art", October 99 (Winter 2002), pp 81-95.
- "On the First Pop Age", New Left Review 19, Jan-Feb 2003.
- "Acerca de la primera era del pop art", New Left Review ES 19, Jan-Feb 2003, pp 68-87.
- "In New York: plans for Ground Zero", London Review of Books 25:6, 20 Mar 2003, pp 16-17. [15]
- "Dada Mime", October 105: Dada (Summer 2003), pp 166-176.
- "An Archival Impulse", October 110 (Fall 2004), pp 3-22.
- "Vision Quest: The Cinema of Harun Farocki", Artforum (Nov 2004), pp 156-161 & 250.
- "Yellow Ribbons: kitsch in Bush’s America", London Review of Books 27:13, 7 Jul 2005, pp 29-31. [16]
- "It’s Modern but is it contemporary?: The Trouble with MoMA", London Review of Books 26:24, 16 Dec 2004, pp 23-25.
- "The Medium is the Market: Business Art", London Review of Books 30:19, 9 Oct 2008, pp 23-24. [17]
- editor, "Questionnaire on the Contemporary", October 130 (Fall 2009), pp 3-124.
- "Contemporary Extracts", e-flux 12 (1/2010).
- "Towards a Grammar of Emergency", New Left Review 68, Mar-Apr 2011, pp 105-118. [18]
- "Hacia una gramatica de la emergencia", New Left Review ES 68, Mar-Apr 2011, pp 93-104. (Spanish)
- "The Last Column: Remnants of 9/11", London Review of Books 33:17, 8 Sep 2011, p 17. On the 9/11 Museum.
- "On Richard Hamilton", London Review of Books 33:19, 6 Oct 2011, p 37. [19]
- "Post-Critical", The Brooklyn Rail, 10 Dec 2012. On Rancière and Latour.
- "After the White Cube", London Review of Books 37:6, 19 Mar 2015, pp 25-26. Asks what art museums are for.
- More
Conversations, interviews
- with Rosalind Krauss, Silvia Kolbowski, Miwon Kwon, and Benjamin Buchloh, "The Politics of the Signifier: A Conversation on the Whitney Biennial", October 66 (Autumn 1993), pp 3-27
- with Renée Green, Mitchell Kane, Miwon Kwon, John Lindell, and Helen Molesworth, "On Site Specificity: A Discussion", Documents 4-5, New York, 1994.
- with Benjamin Buchloh, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Denis Hollier, and Helen Molesworth, "The Politics of the Signifier II: A Conversation on the 'Informe' and the Abject", October 67 (Winter 1994), pp 3-21.
- with Rosalind Krauss, Denis Hollier, Annette Michelson, Silvia Kolbowski, Martha Buskirk, and Benjamin Buchloh, "The Reception of the Sixties", October 69 (Summer 1994), pp 3-21.
- with Silvia Kolbowski, Mignon Nixon, Mary Kelly, Liz Kotz, Simon Leung, and Ayisha Abraham, "A Conversation on Recent Feminist Art Practices", October 71: feminist issueS (Winter 1995), pp 49-69.
- with Tim Dean and Kaja Silverman, "A Conversation with Leo Bersani", October 82 (Autumn 1997), pp 3-16.
- with Denis Hollier, Silvia Kolbowski, and Rosalind Krauss, "The MOMA Expansion: A Conversation with Terence Riley", October 84 (Spring 1998), pp 3-30.
- with George Baker, Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin Buchloh, Andrea Fraser, David Joselit, James Meyer, Robert Storr, John Miller, and Helen Molesworth, "Round Table: The Present Conditions of Art Criticism", October 100: Obsolescence (Spring 2002), pp 200-228.
- with Malcolm Turvey, Chrissie Iles, George Baker, Matthew Buckingham, Anthony McCall, "Round Table: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art", October 104 (Spring 2003), pp 71-96.
- with Stan Allen, "A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton", October 106 (Autumn 2003), pp 35-58.
- with Marquard Smith, "Polemics, Postmodernism, Immersion, Militarized Space", Journal of Visual Culture 3 (2004), pp 320-335.
Reviews
Exhibition reviews
- in London Review of Books
- "At Dia:Beacon", 5 Jun 2003.
- "At the Guggenheim: Pop Surrealism", 18 Dec 2003.
- "At the Whitney: Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Sublime", 2 Sep 2004.
- "In Central Park: The Gates", 3 Mar 2005.
- "In Venice: at the Biennale", 4 Aug 2005.
- "At the Guggenheim: Russian Art", 3 Nov 2005.
- "At the Guggenheim: David Smith", 9 Mar 2006.
- "At the Hayward: ‘The Painting of Modern Life’", 1 Nov 2007.
- "At the Grand Palais: Richard Serra", 22 May 2008.
- "At Inverleith House: Richard Hamilton", 14 Aug 2008. [20]
- "At the Hayward: Ed Ruscha", 19 Nov 2009.
- "At MoMA: Diego Rivera", 26 Jan 2012.
- "At MoMA: Cindy Sherman", 10 May 2012.
- "At MoMA: ‘Inventing Abstraction’", 7 Feb 2013.
- "At the Guggenheim", 20 Mar 2014.
- "At MoMA: Sigmar Polke", 19 Jun 2014.
- "At the Whitney: Jeff Koons", 31 Jul 2014.
Book reviews
- "Art Agonistes", New Left Review 8, Mar-Apr 2001, pp 140-149. Review of Newman's Challenging Art: Artforum. [21]
- in London Review of Books
- "Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy", 21 Sep 2000. Review of Seabrook's Nobrow.
- "Hey, that’s me: Bruce Mau", 5 Apr 2001. Review of Mau's Life Style. [22]
- "Why all the hoopla?: Frank Gehry", 23 Aug 2001. Review of Cohen's Frank Gehry.
- "Bigness: Rem Koolhaas", 29 Nov 2001. Review of Koolhaas's Harvard Design School Guide and Great Leap Forward.
- "Andy Paperbag: Andy Warhol", 21 Mar 2002. Review of Koestenbaum's Andy Warhol. [23]
- "Expendabilia: Reyner Banham", 9 May 2002. Review of Whiteley's Reyner Banham. [24]
- "Pop Eye: Handmade Readymades", 22 Aug 2002. Review of Lobel's Image Duplicator. [25]
- "Nutty Professors: ‘Lingua Franca’", 8 May 2003. Review of Star's Quick Studies. [26]
- "Long Live Aporia!: William Gaddis", 24 Jul 2003. Review of Gaddis' Agapē Agape and The Rush for Second Place. [27]
- "Arty Party: from the ‘society of spectacle’ to the ‘society of extras’", 4 Dec 2003. Review of Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics and Postproduction and Obrist's Interviews I. [28]
- "Go, Modernity: Norman Foster", 22 Jun 2006. Review of two books of Foster. [29]
- "Wine Flasks in Bordeaux, Sail Spires in Cardiff: Richard Rogers", 19 Oct 2006. Review of Powell's books on Rogers. [30]
- "Global Style: Renzo Piano", 20 Sep 2007. Review of Jodidio's and Buchanan's books on Piano.
- "Crack Open the Shells: The Situationist Moment", 12 Mar 2009. Review of Debord's Correspondence.
- "I am the decider: Agamben, Derrida and Santner", 17 Mar 2011. Review of Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign. [31]
- "Preposterous Timing", 8 Nov 2012. Review of Nagel's Medieval Modern and Powell's Depositions. [32]
- "What's the Problem with Critical Art?", 10 Oct 2013. Review of Rancière's Aisthesis.
- "Exhibitionists", 4 Jun 2015. Review of Obrist's Ways of Curating and Balzer's Curationism.
Interviews
- John Douglas Millar, "After the Canon? An Interview with Hal Foster", Mute, 23 Nov 2015.