Books written by Hal Foster

The Return of the Real: The Avant-garde at the End of the Century

This reduction of abstraction to design , decoration , even kitsch was extreme in the citation of op art by Ross Bleckner , Phillip Taaffe , and Peter Schuyff . As Bleckner noted in a characteristically sardonic way , op art was ...
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan in Color

"Hal Foster's legendary run on the color Sunday Tarzan newspaper strip concludes in this volume containing 'Tarzan and the Lost Vikings," 'Tarzan and the Killers,' and 'Tarzan in the City of Gold,' along with a feature on the materials used ...
Art Since 1900

This expanded edition includes a new introduction on the impact of globalization, as well as essays on the development of Synthetic Cubism, early avant-garde film, Brazilian modernism, postmodern architecture, Moscow conceptualism, queer ...
Design and Crime: (and Other Diatribes)

And finally, fifth, the self-critique of anthropology makes it attractive (I mean the recent work of James Clifford, George Marcus, and others), for it promises a reflexivity of the ethnographer even as it preserves an alterity of the ...
El retorno de lo real

Clifford GEERTZ puso la antropología « textual » en el mapa en The Interpretation of Culture , Nueva York , Basic Books , 1973 . Clifford : « La antropología interpretativa , al considerar las culturas como ensamblajes de textos [ .
O retorno do real

22 Clifford desenvolve a noção de “automodelagem etnológica” em The Predicament of Culture, em grande medida com base em Stephen Greenblatt em Renaissance Self-Fashioning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
Diseño y delito

James Clifford, George Marcus y otros), pues promete una refle- xividad del etnógrafo aun conservando una alteridad del otro. Sin embargo, epistemológicamente hablando, el giro etnográfico a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas puede ser ...
Kikuo Saito

Kikuo Saito
Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Hal Foster's Prince Valiant

Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Artist's Edition is a 192-page collection scanned from Foster's rare, original pages and printed in full color, capturing every nuance of Foster's masterly brush strokes.
Arn, Son of Valiant

Arn journeys on his first solo adventure, is later kidnapped by an unscrupulous knight, and, eventually, plays an instrumental role in the defeat of Cidwic, the king of North Wales.
Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell

This beautifully illustrated volume spans the years 1950 to 1990, one of the most fertile periods in the history of abstraction. These four decades witnessed intense debates about the ambitions and prerogatives of abstract painting.
Charles Ray: Figure Ground

This career-spanning publication features conceptual, political, formal, and technical perspectives on the work of contemporary sculptor Charles Ray For Charles Ray (b. 1953), one of today's foremost American artists, sculpture is a way of ...
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Sunday Comics 1933-1935

Expertly restored and reproduced at giant size, this second volume in Dark Horse's comprehensive collections of Foster's Tarzan Sundays compiles over one hundred strips on archive-quality paper and in gorgeous color, which replicates their ...
Thomas Demand: The Dailies

His creations are based on things he saw and photographs he took while travelling and walking the street. Demand describes the series as like Haiku poetry, simple fragments strung together to inspire reflection.
Conversations about Sculpture

low-order line of Minimalism that interested me was Carl Andre, because he was involved in materiality, in the brick as a brick. HF: In the brick as a unit too. RS: Yes, that's true, but not entirely. When Andre spoke of the “uncarved ...
What Comes After Farce: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle

Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in What Comes after Farce?, delves into recent developments in art, criticism, and fiction under the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption.
Dioses prostéticos

Primitivismo, cubismo y abstracción Los primeros años del siglo XX Frascina, Francis Harrison, Charles Perry, Gill La presente obra estudia los movimientos artísticos entre 1900 y 1920, centrándose especialmente en tres cuestiones: por ...
Arte desde 1900

HARRISON, Charles, FRASCINA, Francis, y PERRY, Gill, Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century, New Haven y Londres, Yale University Press, 1993 [ed. cast.: Primitivismo, cubismo y abstracción.
The Art-architecture Complex

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Richard Serra: The Matter of Time

Essays by Hal Foster and Carmen Gim nez.