TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Hal
TI  - Bad new days: art, criticism, emergency 
SN  - 1784781452
AV  - N72.S6 F665 2015
U1  - 701.030904 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Art and society
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Art
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - 26/02/16 GG This item will be on 2 hour loan for the paper VSAR502; Includes bibliographical references and index; In search of terms -- Abject -- Archival -- Mimetic -- Precarious -- Post-critical? -- In praise of actuality
N2  - "Bad New Days looks back at the last twenty-five years of artistic practice in Western Europe and North America, positioning it in relation to a general condition of emergency that neoliberalism and the war of terror have brought with them. Foster argues that art has actually anticipated this condition, at times miming the collapse of the social contract, at other times resisting it, and at still other times exacerbating it critically. Against the assumption that art no longer heeds any model, he also offers several paradigms of practice over this period, which he terms "abject," "archival," "mimetic," and "precarious.""--
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