{"product_id":"bad-new-days-art-criticism-emergency-9781784781484","title":"Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the world's leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBad New Days\u003c\/i\u003e examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConsidering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Ranci re, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms \"abject,\" \"archival,\" \"mimetic,\" and \"precarious.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784781484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Hal Foster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43971949068469,"sku":"9781784781484","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f7de1cff-3b52-4bcc-bd08-dad958ba4a37.jpg?v=1713280634","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bad-new-days-art-criticism-emergency-9781784781484","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}