Prosthetic Gods

by Hal Foster

Book Overview

Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Guaguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others.

How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262562812
• ISBN13: 9780262562812
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher