{"product_id":"bad-new-days-art-criticism-emergency-9781784781484","title":"Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the world's leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBad New Days\u003c\/i\u003e examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConsidering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Ranci re, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms \"abject,\" \"archival,\" \"mimetic,\" and \"precarious.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHal Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and a 2014-15 fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A co-editor of \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and books, he is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eDesign and Crime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRecording\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Real\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCompulsive Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Art-Architecture Complex\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363122417938,"sku":"9781784781484","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0535296-7a1c-400f-a0d2-a9fb7d53bd82.jpg?v=1728404969","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bad-new-days-art-criticism-emergency-9781784781484","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}