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03367aam a2200445 i 4500 001 FE2C10705F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 200317t20202020njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020011054 020 $a 0691202605 020 $a 9780691202600 035 $a (OCoLC)1150873384 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d TOH $d QGJ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d FNE $d WCM $d OCLCO $d NLHHG $d TWS $d U@M $d OCLCQ $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a N6490 $b .F66 2020 072 7 $a ART $2 eflch 072 7 $a ART $2 ukslc 082 00 $a 709.04 $2 23 100 1 $a Foster, Hal, $e author. 245 10 $a Brutal aesthetics : $b Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg / $c Hal Foster. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 286 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 27 cm. 490 1 $a The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; $v 2018 490 1 $a Bollingen series ; $v XXXV:67 520 $a 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 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. -- Publisher description 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Jean Dubuffet and his brutes -- Georges Bataille and his caves -- Asger Jorn and his creatures -- Eduardo Paolozzi and his hollow gods -- Claes Oldenburg and his ray guns. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Art, Modern $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Aesthetics, Modern $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Civilization in art. 650 7 $a Aesthetics, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00798800 650 7 $a Art, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816615 650 7 $a Civilization in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862941 830 0 $a A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; $v 2018. 830 0 $a Bollingen series ; $v 35:67. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023858.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FE2C10705F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search