Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg

by Hal Foster

How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb

In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691202605
• ISBN13: 9780691202600
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.7" x 10.4"