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Brutal Aesthetics - Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg (Hardcover)
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Brutal Aesthetics - Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg (Hardcover)
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How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world
devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In
Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how
postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of
culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the
Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that
modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization become
barbaric, Foster examines the various ways that key figures from
the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a "brutal
aesthetics" adequate to the destruction around them. With a focus
on the philosopher Georges Bataille, the painters Jean Dubuffet and
Asger Jorn, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and Claes Oldenburg,
Foster investigates a manifold move to strip art down, or to reveal
it as already bare, in order to begin again. What does Bataille
seek in the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux? How does
Dubuffet imagine an art brut, an art unscathed by culture? Why does
Jorn populate his paintings with "human animals"? What does
Paolozzi see in his monstrous figures assembled from industrial
debris? And why does Oldenburg remake everyday products from urban
scrap? A study of artistic practices made desperate by a world in
crisis, Brutal Aesthetics is an intriguing account of a difficult
era in twentieth-century culture, one that has important
implications for our own. Published in association with the Center
for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
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