In the first half of this book, Hal Foster surveys our new 'political economy of design,' exploring the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities. In the second half, he examines the historical relations of modern art and the modern museum, the conceptual vicissitudes of art history and visual studies, the recent travails of art criticism, and the double aftermath of modernism and postmodernism. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime offers historical sketches and contemporary test-cases in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.
- ISBN10 1859844537
- ISBN13 9781859844533
- Publish Date 27 December 2003 (first published 17 July 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 July 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 194
- Language English