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OUT NOW: BAD NEW DAYS: ART, CRITICISM, EMERGENCY By Hal Foster One of the world's leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice "Deft, opinionated ... Foster is one of those rare art theorists whose measured prose can engage a wider readership, cutting through the philosophical inflationism that afflicts much of the higher gossip among art critics." - Guardian BAD NEW DAYS is 20% off at the moment: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1961-bad-new-days LONDON EVENT: November 5th, London Review Bookshop Hal Foster in conversation with Anne Wagner. They will be discussing the relationship between art, criticism and the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events/2015/11/bad-new-days-hal-foster-and-anne-wagner HAL FOSTER, LIVE AT THE KITCHEN: Listen to Hal Foster discuss BAD NEW DAYS with Tim Griffin: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2244-video-hal-foster-live-at-the-kitchen ------------ Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it. Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms "abject," "archival," "mimetic," and "precarious." HAL FOSTER is a 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, Recodings, The Return of the Real, Compulsive Beauty and The Art-Architecture Complex. ------------ "Foster's strength lies in his erudite attention to those artists that have emerged as definitive of their particular moment." - Mostafa Heddaya, Artinfo "I find it refreshing to encounter a degree of intellectual rigour you don't find too often on my side of the fence." - Rowan Moore, Observer (in praise of The Art-Architecture Complex) "The Art-Architecture Complex is a timely tome with an urgent message for anyone on the art or architecture axis." - Time Out (In praise of The Art-Architecture Complex) "The Art-Architecture Complex is a persistently insightful, elliptical account of an ambiguous symbiosis." - Owen Hatherley "Elegant and incisive." - Boston Review (In praise of The Art-Architecture Complex) ------------ HARDBACK: SEPTEMBER 2015 / ISBN 9781784781453 / $26.95 / £14.99 / $ 32.00 (CAN) AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK BAD NEW DAYS is currently 20% off (hardback) and 40% off (e-book): http://www.versobooks.com/books/1961-bad-new-days For more information on university inspection/desk copies visit: http://www.versobooks.com/pg/desk-copies ------------ Visit Verso's website for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers: http://www.versobooks.com Sign up for the Verso mailing list: https://www.versobooks.com/users/sign_up Follow us online: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/VersoBks Twitter: http://twitter.com/VersoBooks Instagram: http://instagram.com/versobooks Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/18970808-verso-books