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  1. Foster's criticism focuses on the role of the avant-garde within postmodernism. In 1983, he edited The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, a groundbreaking text in postmodernism. In Recodings (1985), he promoted a vision of postmodernism that simultaneously engaged its avant-garde history and commented on contemporary society.

  2. Mar 10, 2016 · Describing Hal Foster as a critic is something of a misnomer. A distinguished professor and academic, he is one of the most important art historians living today. That being said, Foster’s commitment to writing that’s both critical and historical has defined his career.

  3. May 21, 2020 · Old Radical Truths: Hal Foster’s Theory of Art Criticism. His latest collection is energized by his engagement with sociopolitical trends, but it’s not clear what scope this leaves him to...

  4. Sep 8, 2015 · The title of Hal Foster’s new book Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency is drawn from an oft-quoted maxim of Bertolt Brecht’s: “Don’t start with the good old days, but the bad new...

  5. He is the recipient of Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism in College Art Association in 2012 and the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing in 2010, and he has been the Siemens Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

  6. HAL FOSTER: CURRICULUM VITAE. Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. EDUCATION: 1990 Ph.D., Art History, City University of New York 1979 M.A., English Literature, Columbia 1977 A.B., English Literature, Princeton. ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

  7. Art and social critic Hal Foster (2002) once suggested that much cultural autonomy — Kraus’s (1912) ‘running room’ (Spielraum) — has collapsed into a world where “everything from jeans to genes seems to be regarded as so much design” (17).