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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
Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and
white and have been reduced in size.