Design and crime : and other diatribes / Hal Foster.

Main entry:

Foster, Hal, author.

Title & Author:

Design and crime : and other diatribes / Hal Foster.

Publication:

London : Verso, 2002.

Description:

xv, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Architecture and design -- 1. Brow beaten -- 2. Design and crime -- 3. Master builder -- 4. Architecture and empire -- Part II. Art and archive -- 5. Archives of modern art -- 6. Antinomies in art history -- 7. Art critics in extremis -- 8. This funeral is for the wrong corpse.

Summary:

Foster explores the history of a design led culture and in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present asks if the new 'political economy of design' is a cultural crime.

ISBN:

1859846688
9781859846681

Subject:

Culture.
Design.
Kulturkritik
Kunsttheorie.
Vormgeving.
Art and society.
Decorative arts.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226602
Call No.: NK1390 .F6 2002
Status: Available

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