Princeton University Press
With a focus on the philosopher Georges Bataille, the painters Jean Dubuffet and Asger Jorn, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and Claes Oldenburg, Foster investigates a manifold move to strip art down, or to reveal it as already bare, in order to begin again. What does Bataille seek in the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux? How does Dubuffet imagine an art brut, an art unscathed by culture? Why does Jorn populate his paintings with “human animals”? What does Paolozzi see in his monstrous figures assembled from industrial debris? And why does Oldenburg remake everyday products from urban scrap?
A study of artistic practices made desperate by a world in crisis, Brutal Aestheticsis an intriguing account of a difficult era in twentieth-century culture, one that has important implications for our own.
Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Hardcover
- Price:
- $39.95 / £34.00
- ISBN:
- Published:
- 11/17/2020
- Copyright:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 296
- Size:
- 7.5 x 10.25 in.
- Illus:
- 141 color + 41 b/w illus.