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Hal Foster
"A collection of Hal Foster's writing as a critic, since 1993"--
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Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump.
Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, Cullen Murphy
In the latest volume of Fantagraphics' ambitious reprinting of Hal Foster's immortal masterpiece, another milestone in the life of Prince Valiant.
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster
Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today.
Two of the most important…
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Our series of special slipcased gift sets of the most visually opulent comic strip in the medium's history, based on the King Arthur mythos, continues with Vols. 16 - 18…
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The action never lets up in the 27th volume of Fantagraphics' exquisite reprinting of Hal Foster's masterpiece, as Val embarks upon another treacherous journey that will test his mettle.
The 28th volume of Fantagraphics' ambitious reprinting of Hal Foster's immortal masterpiece.
Brian M. Kane,James Bama
Award-winning illustrated biography of Hall of Fame Prince Valiant illustrator Hal Foster.
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A comprehensive biography of Hal Foster, examining the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the 20th century. Foster’s work inspired generations of artists, from Carmine Infantino to…
One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice
The Forgings, the groundbreaking series of industrially forged steel sculptures that the artist produced in 1955 and 1956, are brought together in one book for the first time, alongside complementary…
A critical primer on artist Richard Serra’s work.
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For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have…
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Art critic with influential critique of art and architecture.
Essays and articles about Richard Hamiton, the intellectual father of Pop art.
Haunted by his long-lost love, Prince Valiantjourneys back to the land of his birth.
A Village Voice Best Book, this seminal work presents new models of vision and examines modern theories of seeing.
Recodings is a lucid & provocative work, & one that allows us to glimpse the stirrings and upheavals in the hothouse of modern art . –The Los Angeles Times [art][critical…
If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic…
Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Gauguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others.
Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and…
How artists created an aesthetic of positive barbarism in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb –
A leading art theorist analyzes the global style in art and architecture.
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Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated…
-Suitable for all ages- Targeted promotion to newspapers running Prince Valiant- Price Valiant is still one of the most successful strips on the newspaper page- Major nostalgia…
Prince Valiant set a new standard for the serial drama when it debuted in 1937. Now Foster’s legendary medieval epic is collected in a sumptuous new hardcover series, with each…
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The prince takes on his greatest battle yet - fatherhood.
The 11th volume of Fantagraphics award-winning Prince Valiant series concludes our hero s adventures in Cornwall and marks the first appearance of Arvak the Red Stallion. At the Council of…
This volume of the acclaimed Sunday newspaper strip starts with Prince Val trying to bust Sir Gawain out of jail, and includes a quest for the Holy Grail.
Valiant fights battles large and small, and Prince Arn comes to the rescue, in this classically illustrative Sunday comic strip based on the King Arthur mythos.
Prince Arn gets in over his head while an enemy plots revenge…
Arn goes berserk, and there are love triangles, slave rebellions, greedy governors and more in the next volume of PRINCE VALIANT!
This first-ever Prince Valiant boxed set collects over six years of Hal Foster Sunday strips along with tons of supplementary art, photos, and essays!
Galan quests for a unicorn and King Arthur sends Val on a mission in the latest collection of 1970s Prince Valiant newspaper comic strips.
Val must win back the queen of (his) heart, Aleta, and much more in this collection of the King-Arthur inspired classic Sunday adventure strip.The latest volume in the ongoing collection…
The latest Prince Valiant deluxe boxed set collecting over six years of Hal Foster Sunday strips along with tons of supplementary art, photos, and essays!The latest Prince Valiant boxed set…
A wide-ranging, gripping lecture on Roy Lichtenstein.
A critical investigation of Adam Pendleton's deep engagement with abstraction.
Adam Pendleton's exploration of abstraction-through painting, drawing, screen printing, sculpture, language, book arts, and film-over the past five years constitutes…
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Hal Foster, Tacita Dean
From one of his earliest projects for Heiner Friedrich and Philippa de Menil, founders of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, Richard Gluckman has closely aligned his work with…
Hal Foster,Teju Cole
In History of Painting, the artist has widened his scope to include both figurative and nonfigurative works that deal explicitly with art history, race, and gender, as well as force…
Clare Fontaine,Hal Foster
The first English-language publication of writings by the collective artist Claire Fontaine, addressing our complicity with anything that limits our freedom
This anthology presents, in chronological order, all the texts…
Talks about the revelatory and controversial Pop art movement that emerged in America in the 1960s. This illustrated book focuses on 40 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by influential…
Rem Koolhaas,Hal Foster
In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response…
Hal Foster,Rosalind Krauss
Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the…
