Presented by the Theory & Media Studies Colloquium & Working Group on Contemporary Cultures.
Central Chinese Television Tower, Beijing China, Rem Koolhaas.
4PM
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Hal Foster on architect Rem Koolhaus
Hal Foster, Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology, is a faculty member of the School of Architecture and an associate member of the Department of German; he also works with the programs of Media and Modernity and European Cultural Studies. Recent books include Art Since 1900 (2005), a co-authored textbook on 20th-century art; Prosthetic Gods (2004), concerning the relation between modernism and psychoanalysis; and Design and Crime (2002), on problems in contemporary art, architecture, and design. In fall 2011 two new volumes were published: The Art-Architecture Complex (Verso) and The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha (Princeton University Press).
