Summary
Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Guaguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others.How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. These diverse figures were all fascinate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262562812 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262562812 |
| Author: | Hal Foster |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 953g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 19mm |
| Series: | October Books |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Readers serious about modern and contemporary art eagerly await each new offering from the prolific Hal Foster, one of the leading cultural critics and theorists in the United States.
—Nancy Tousley, Calgary HeraldAbout The Author
Hal Foster
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin ‘17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and the author of Prosthetic Gods (MIT Press) and other books.
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