Conversation

Bad New Days - Oct 20th

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Bad New Days book cover

Who: Hal Foster in Conversation with Devin Fore

What: Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency

When: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 at 6PM

Where: Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton NJ

One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice – please join us for a presentation and discussion with author Hal Foster and fellow critic and scholar, Devin Fore.

Hal Foster is 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 many influential books, including Design and Crime, Recodings, The Return of the Real, Compulsive Beauty, The First Pop Age, and The Art-Architecture Complex. Devin Fore is Associate Professor of German at Princeton. He, too, is an editor at October magazine. Fore is the author of Realism After Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature. His new book, All the Graphs: Soviet Factography and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Documentary, is forthcoming from Chicago University Press.