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, Seattle: Bay Press, 1982.
• editor, The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, Seattle: Bay Press, 1983.
• Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics, Seattle: Bay Press, 1985.
• editor, Vision and Visuality, Seattle: Bay Press, 1987, 134 pp. Essays by Jay, Crary, Krauss, Bryson, Rose.
• Compulsive Beauty, MIT Press, 1993, 344 pp. [1]
• The Return of the Real, 1996.
• editor, with Gordon Hughes, Richard Serra, MIT Press, 2000.
• Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes), Verso, 2002, 176 pp; Verso, 2010, 192 pp. [2]
• Prosthetic Gods, MIT Press, 2004, 455 pp.
• with Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 704 pp, ARG, IA; 2nd ed., rev., 2012, 816 pp. [3] Reviews: Bishop (2005), Collings (2005), Gewen (2005), Dahlberg (2006).
• The Art-Architecture Complex, Verso, 2011, EPUB.
• 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)