8 Must-Read Books Coming Out This Fall
BY BLOUIN ARTINFO | August 24, 2015
(Courtesy Verso/Drawn & Quarterly/Random House/ Delacorte Press/ I. B. Tauris )
ARTINFO rounded up eight art-related books slated for publication in the next few months. Read our capsule reviews below.
“Bad New Days,” by Hal Foster (Verso, September 8)
In his latest collection of essays, the eminent art historian and critic Hal Foster considers two and a half decades of artistic output in North America and Western Europe and identifies four themes, or impulses: “abject,” “archival,” “mimetic,” and “precarious.” These form the first four chapters of this book, covering artists like Mike Kelley, Tacita Dean, Robert Gober, Isa Genzken, and Thomas Hirschhorn. As usual, Foster’s strength lies not in his ability to surface understudied practitioners but rather in his erudite attention to those artists that have emerged as definitive of their particular moment. To that end, these chapters offer cogent arguments about the artists at hand and their linkages to broader cultural-political conditions. But it is in the two final sections of the book — the fifth chapter, “Post-critical?”, in which Foster asks: “How did we arrive at a point where critique is dismissed?” and a closing salvo titled “In Praise of Actuality” — that the book stakes its sharpest critical grounds. The latter, in particular, offers a polemical rebuke to the institutional “zombie time” (not to be confused with the other critically-rebuked “zombie”) brought about by the present vogue for restaging historical performances and exhibitions from the 1960s and ’70s, with Foster arguing instead for an art that can “constellate not only different registers of experience (aesthetic, cognitive, and critical) but also different orders of temporality.” —Mostafa Heddaya
“Soviet Bus Stops,” by Christopher Herwig (FUEL Publishing, September 29)
Shymkent, Kazakhstan is hard enough to locate on a map — it’s certainly nowhere to be found in narratives of post-war modernist architecture. Yet “Soviet Bus Stops,” a book of photographs that celebrates small-scale constructions in Shymkent and beyond, might well change that.....-»
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“Soviet Bus Stops,” by Christopher Herwig (FUEL Publishing, September 29)
Shymkent, Kazakhstan is hard enough to locate on a map — it’s certainly nowhere to be found in narratives of post-war modernist architecture. Yet “Soviet Bus Stops,” a book of photographs that celebrates small-scale constructions in Shymkent and beyond, might well change that.....-»
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1221946/8-must-read-books-coming-out-this-fall
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