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The anti-aesthetic : essays on postmodern culture

by Hal Foster

This comprehensive, chronologically organised history explores key developments, movements and turning points in art from 1900 to the present. Using a year-by-year structure, it focuses on crucial events, influential texts and seminal works.

Accession 5155 ISBN — Publisher Bay Press
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