Hal Foster
Hal Foster is professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, and the author of many books about both subjects. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2010 recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing and the 2011 Siemens Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Foster’s latest book The First Pop Age examines the work of some of the most famous people in pop art, including Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter
Books by Hal Foster
“Since I was a student at the University of Ghent I have gone back to this book many, many times. At around 900 pages, the book is like an encyclopaedia. Aside from the text itself, it has great further references for anyone wanting to learn more or for further research. The most striking thing for me about this groundbreaking work of art history is not only its content, but also the way it is organised. The presentation is an entirely original way of creating a book and an experience for the reader.” Read more...
The best books on Figurative Painting Today
Julien Delagrange, Artists & Art Critic
Interviews with Hal Foster
The best books on Pop Art, recommended by Hal Foster
What is pop art? Why did it catch on, and what does it mean? And what about Warhol – was his work as superficial as he liked to say it was? The art professor answers all this and more
Interviews where books by Hal Foster were recommended
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Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism
by B. H. D. Buchloch, David Joselit, Hal Foster & Rosalind E. Krauss -
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Painting Today
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Painting (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
by Terry R. Myers -
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Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting
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Picturing People: The New State of the Art
by Charlotte Mullins
The best books on Figurative Painting Today, recommended by Julien Delagrange
The best books on Figurative Painting Today, recommended by Julien Delagrange
Collectors and curators have been clamouring for figurative art in recent years, as a generation of painters take a more traditional, representational approach to addressing major cultural themes in their work. But is figurative painting today merely a reactionary impulse, a kind of nostalgia for art that preceded modernism, postmodernism and the fragmentation in art-making that was ushered in by conceptual art? There is much more to it than that, argues painter and art historian Julien Delagrange.
