Author

Publication

2004-11-01 - The MIT Press

Language

English

Word Count

118,250 words, Guess

Page Count

473 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004040291
  • LibraryThing22900

Classifications

  • LCCN6494.M64 F67 2004

Description

"How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F.T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. These diverse figures were all fascinated by fictions of origin, either primordial and tribal or futuristic and technological. In this way, Foster argues, two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine."--Jacket.

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  • Prosthetic Gods (October Books)HardcoverThe MIT Press2004-11-01

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