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Bad New Days

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Deft, opinionated Foster is one of those rare art theorists whose measured prose can engage a wider readership, cutting through the philosophical inflationism that afflicts much of the higher gossip among art critics. Guardian Bad New Days attempts to recover the idea of an avant-garde after a hard half-century of infighting, obfuscation, rivalry, and successive failures to engage with the real world of politics. Mark Kingwell, Harper s Foster s strength lies in his erudite attention to those artists that have emerged as definitive of their particular moment. Mostafa Heddaya, Artinfo Praise for The Art-Architecture Complex I find it refreshing to encounter a degree of intellectual rigour you don t find too often on my side of the fence. Rowan Moore, Observer The Art-Architecture Complex is a timely tome with an urgent message for anyone on the art or architecture axis. Time Out The Art-Architecture Complex is a persistently insightful, elliptical account of an ambiguous symbiosis. Owen Hatherley Elegant and incisive. Boston Review

Deft, opinionated, Foster is one of those rare art theorists whose measured prose can engage a wider readership, cutting through the philosophical inflationism that afflicts much of the higher gossip among art critics. * Guardian * Foster's latest book, Bad New Days, attempts to recover the idea of an avant-garde after a hard half-century of infighting, obfuscation, rivalry, and successive failures to engage with the real world of politics. * Harper's * Foster's strength lies in his erudite attention to those artists that have emerged as definitive of their particular moment. -- Mostafa Heddaya * Artinfo * In praise of The Art-Architecture Complex: I find it refreshing to encounter a degree of intellectual rigour you don't find too often on my side of the fence. -- Rowan Moore * Observer * In praise of The Art-Architecture Complex: The Art-Architecture Complex is a timely tome with an urgent message for anyoneon the art or architecture axis. * Time Out New York * The Art-Architecture Complex is a persistently insightful, elliptical account of an ambiguous symbiosis. -- Owen Hatherley In praise of The Art-Architecture Complex: Elegant and incisive. * Boston Review *

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HAL FOSTER is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. A co-editor of October magazine and books, he is the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic, and the author of Design and Crime, Recodings, The Return of the Real, Compulsive Beauty and The Art-Architecture Complex.

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