Lecture Information: 6pm, B04 auditorium, Tyler School of Art_Architecture, Temple University, 2001 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia [While this is not a Penn event, it is definitely worth sharing for any creative students or professionals in the Philadelphia area.]
Hal Foster is an internationally renowned author of books on modern and contemporary art and theory and a Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. In 1991 he joined the editorial board of the international journal "October", a position he continues to hold. In addition to several edited collections, Foster’s books include Compulsive Beauty (1993), The Return of the Real (1996), Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes) (2002), and Prosthetic Gods (2004). He is also the author, with Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, of the textbook Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (2004). His new book, Figment: Painting and Subjectivity in the First Pop Age, is due out in 2011. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foster continues to write regularly for October, ArtForum, and The London Review of Books. Within photography he has written about conceptual photography, photo montage, appropriation, and postmodern photographic practices.
