BRUTAL AESTHETICS

In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of cul ture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art ca n teach us how to survive a civilization become barbaric, Foster examines the various ways that key figures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a brutal aesthetics adequate to the destruction around them.With a focus on the philosopher Geor ges Bataill...[Read more]