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Prosthetic Gods

by Hal Foster
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author, Hal Foster

Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He is the author of Compulsive Beauty (1993), The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (1996), and Prosthetic Gods (2004), all published by the MIT Press, and other books.

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Book Details

Published
November 1, 2004
Publisher
MIT Press
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780262062428

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