In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of design. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime explores the historical relations of modern art and 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 in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.

"Design and Crime is cool, measured, and steady, like a Gunsmoke shootout." -Greil Marcus

About the Author
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. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he delivered the 2018 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in Washington. He teaches at Princeton University, co-edits the journal October, and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books.

Reviews
Foster is spot-on ... exactly the kind of book the design world should want. * Bookforum *
Elegant and incisive essays. * Boston Review *
In a polite and even schmoozy art world, Foster stands out for being willing to make barbed comments on design gods. * National Post *
Foster makes a lot of sense. * Village Voice *



Book Information
ISBN 9781844676705
Author Hal Foster
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 230g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 15mm