Hal Foster

Harold Foss "Hal" Foster (1955) is an American art critic and historian. Foster's criticism focuses on the role of the avant-garde within postmodernism.

Works

• The Mink's Cry, Bay Press, 1982.
• editor, The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, Bay Press, 1983.
• Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics, Bay Press, 1985.
• Compulsive Beauty, MIT Press, 1995.
• Vision and Visuality, Discussions in Contemporary Culture, Bay Press, Dia Art Foundation, Seattle, 1988.
• The Return of the Real, 1996.
• editor, with Gordon Hughes, Richard Serra, MIT Press, 2000.
• Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes), 2002; 2nd ed., 2011.
• Prosthetic Gods, MIT Press, 2004, 455 pp.
• The Art-Architecture Complex, Verso Books, 2011.
• with Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin Buchloh, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011. Excerpts
• The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, Princeton University Press, 2011.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Foster_(art_critic)