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Bad new days : art, criticism, emergency

by Hal Foster

Analysing contemporary art in Western Europe and North America over the past twenty-five years, this book examines its relationship to political and social crises. It categorises recent practices into four paradigms: the abject, archival, mimetic, and precarious.

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