The anti-aesthetic: Essays on postmodern culture

H Foster - 1983 - philpapers.org
H Foster
1983philpapers.org
In all the arts a war is being waged between modernists and postmodernists. Radicals have
tended to side with the modernists against the forces of conservatism. Postmodern Culture is
a break with this tendency. Its contributors propose a postmodernism of resistance-an
aesthetic that rejects hierarchy and celebrates diversity. Ranging from architecture, sculpture
and painting to music, photography and film, this collection is now recognised as a seminal
text on the postmodernism debate. The essays are by Hal Foster, Jürgen Habermas …
Abstract
In all the arts a war is being waged between modernists and postmodernists. Radicals have tended to side with the modernists against the forces of conservatism. Postmodern Culture is a break with this tendency. Its contributors propose a postmodernism of resistance-an aesthetic that rejects hierarchy and celebrates diversity. Ranging from architecture, sculpture and painting to music, photography and film, this collection is now recognised as a seminal text on the postmodernism debate. The essays are by Hal Foster, Jürgen Habermas, Kenneth Frampton, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Craig Owens, Gregory L. Ulmer, Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Edward W. Said.
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