The role of design in a "near-perfect circuit of production and consumption"
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. A co-editor of October magazine and books, he is the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic, and the author of Design and Crime, Recording, The Return of the Real, Compulsive Beauty and The Art-Architecture Complex.
"Foster is spot-on ... His 'radical anamnesis' is a notably stirring performance ... exactly the kind of book the design world should want." -- Bookforum "Design and Crime is cool, measured, and steady, like a Gunsmoke shootout, which is all to the good. What bothers me about it is that all through Hal Foster's book I find him changing my mind." -- Greil Marcus "In these elegant and incisive essays, Foster argues that in recent years art culture has lost ground to business culture, and become a franchise of the pervasive global market place." -- Boston Review "Design and Crime is demanding, angry and gentle - a powerful antidote to cultural ennui." -- Modern Painters
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