Modernism, An Incomplete Project

Hal Foster

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics (MIT Press, 2025), What Comes After Farce? Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle (Verso, 2020), and Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg (Princeton University Press, 2020) A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foster co-edits October and writes for The London Review of Books.

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