{"product_id":"9781784781453-secondhand-bad-new-days-art-criticism-emergency","title":"Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency","description":"Bad New Days  examines the evolution of art and criticism in  Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years,  exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency  instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. Considering the  work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa  Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Ranciere, Bruno  Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has  anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the  social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times  burlesquing it.  Against the claim that art making has become so  heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the  critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all  its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of  recent years, which he terms \"abject,\" \"archival,\" \"mimetic,\" and  \"precarious.\"","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49180932702427,"sku":"9781784781453-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/96b8546e-5326-474f-a78e-a890930431c1.jpg?v=1787657240","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781784781453-secondhand-bad-new-days-art-criticism-emergency","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}