Articles by Hal Foster

• Towards a Grammar of Emergency
  • Hal Foster

  in NLR 68, March-April 2011, pp. 105-118
  Subjects: Art
  

  The work of Thomas Hirschhorn as artistic primer for a precarious world. Appeals for explanation and engagement in makeshift monuments or plaintive placards, while overflowing installations lay bare the excesses of late capitalism.

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  Also available in Spanish
• On the First Pop Age
  • Hal Foster

  in NLR 19, January-February 2003, pp. 93-112
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Art
  

  If Britain rather than the US, in the fifties rather than the sixties, originated Pop Art, what ingredients made it possible, and how did its pre-eminent painter Richard Hamilton tabulate the arrival of a new ‘super-fetishism’?

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• Art Agonistes
  • Hal Foster

  in NLR 8, March-April 2001, pp. 140-149
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Art
  

  Hal Foster on Amy Newman, ed., Challenging Art: Artforum 1962–1974. The modern fate of art criticism through the prism of America’s leading journal of the visual arts in the sixties—a retrospect of the time beyond Abstract Expressionism.

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