Hal FosterWhat Comes After Farce?
Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle
Hal Foster is the author of numerous books, including The Art-Architecture Complex; The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha; Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency; and, with Richard Serra, Conversations about Sculpture. He teaches at Princeton University, co-edits the journal October, and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books.
Preface
I. Terror and Transgression
1. Traumatic Trace
2. Bush Kitsch
3. Paranoid Style
4. Wild Things
5. Père Trump
6. Conspirators
II. Plutocracy and Display
7. Fetish Gods
8. Beautiful Breath
9. Human Strike
10. Exhibitionists
11. Gray Boxes
12. Underpainting
III. Media and Fiction
13. Player Piano
14. Robo Eye
15. Smashed Screens
16. Machine Images
17. Model Worlds
18. Real Fictions
Notes
Index