Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)

by Foster, Hal

• ISBN13: 9781859844533
• ISBN10: 1859844537
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-12-27
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

In the first half of this book, Hal Foster surveys our new 'political economy of design,' exploring the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities. In the second half, he examines the historical relations of modern art and the modern museum, the conceptual vicissitudes of art history and visual studies, the recent travails of art criticism, and the double aftermath of modernism and postmodernism. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime offers historical sketches and contemporary test-cases in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CREDITS	ix
PREFACE	xiii
PART I ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
ONE BROW BEATEN	3	(10)
TWO DESIGN AND CRIME	13	(14)
THREE MASTER BUILDER	27	(16)
FOUR ARCHITECTURE AND EMPIRE	43	(22)
PART II ART AND ARCHIVE
FIVE ARCHIVES OF MODERN ART	65	(18)
SIX ANTINOMIES IN ART HISTORY	83	(21)
SEVEN ART CRITICS IN EXTREMIS	104	(19)
EIGHT THIS FUNERAL IS FOR THE WRONG CORPSE	123	(22)
NOTES	145	(26)
INDEX	171