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  1. A discussion about Richard Serra
    A discussion about Richard Serra

    with Hal Foster and Michael Kimmelman on Jun 6, 2007

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Hal Foster is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, he is an internationally renowned author of books on post-modernism in art. He later studied at Princeton and took a PhD at CUNY before becoming an instructor at the Whitney Program ? an offshoot of the Whitney Museum. His landmark 1983 edited book The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture identified the end of the modern era and the arrival of postmodernism. Foster is a student of Rosalind E. Krauss and thus extends a lineage that from Clement Greenberg to Michael Fried to Krauss. Authors such as Jürgen Habermas, Kenneth Frampton, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind E. Krauss, Jean Baudrillard, Edward Said, Gregory Ulmer, Craig Owens, and Douglas Crimp took positions?often disparate?against what Foster would term the ‘postmodernism of reaction.’ In its stead, Foster and most of the authors would argue for a ‘postmodernism of resistance.’ His later book Recodings, first published in 1985 solidified his position as a critic of stature in contemporary art and architecture. In his 1996 Return of the Real, Foster returned to postmodernism once again, and in the 2002 Design and Crime turned his eye to the near-total penetration of design in contemporary life. For his dissertation, Foster explored surrealist art through the lens of psychoanalytic art theory. Foster would publish this research as Compulsive Beauty in 1993 and would return to the topic with Prosthetic Gods in 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Foster_%28art_critic%29