Hal Foster (art critic)

Hal Foster ( born August 13, 1955 in Seattle ) is an American art historian, publicist and art critic. He is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Princeton University in New Jersey.

Career

Foster was the son of a well-off lawyer and attended a private school in Seattle. Among his fellow students was Bill Gates. He studied from 1977 English Literature and Art History at Princeton University (Bachelor of Arts ( BA) magna cum laude) and graduated in 1979 from Columbia University with a Master of Arts ( MA) in English literature. In 1990 he received his doctorate at the City University of New York in art history.

Work

From 1987 to 1991 Foster was the director for critical and curatorial studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. From 1991 to 1993 he held a professorship in art history and comparative literature at Cornell University in Ithaca (New York) and 1996 Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Princeton University. He held lectures and seminars in Modern and contemporary art and art theory. Since 2000 he has held the chair there, Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology.

He is among others with Benjamin Buchloh and Rosalind Krauss, in which he received his Ph.D., co-editor of appearing in the MIT-Press art journal October. Foster writes regularly on art criticism and literature review for Artforum, and The London Review of Books. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Hal Foster was in spring 2011 fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Writings

  • The Art -Architecture Complex, Verso Book, New York / London, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84467689-7
  • Pop Art, Phaidon Press, London 2005, ISBN 978-0-7148-4363-6
  • Art Since 1900: Modernism, Anti- Modernism, Postmodernism (along with Rosalind Krauss, Yve -Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh ), Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, ISBN 978-0-500-23818-9
  • Prosthetic gods, MIT Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts ), 2004, 978-0-262-06242-8
  • (Ed.) Richard Serra, MIT Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-262-56130-3
  • Design and Crime ( and Other Diatribes ), Verso, London, 2003, ISBN 978-1-85984-453-3
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