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Hal Foster (art critic)

Hal Foster
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Foster in Princeton, New Jersey, 2004
Born (1955-08-13) August 13, 1955 (age 61)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Residence Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Citizenship United States
Nationality United States
Fields Art history
Institutions Princeton University
Cornell University
Alma mater Princeton University
Columbia University
City University of New York
Doctoral advisor Rosalind Krauss
Notable awards Guggenheim Fellowship (1998)

Harold Foss "Hal" Foster (born August 13, 1955) is an American art critic and historian. He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York. He taught at Cornell University from 1991 to 1997 and has been on the faculty at Princeton since 1997. In 1998 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Foster's criticism focuses on the role of the avant-garde within postmodernism. In 1983, he edited The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, a seminal text in postmodernism. In Recodings (1985), he promoted a vision of postmodernism that simultaneously engaged its avant-garde history and commented on contemporary society. In The Return of the Real (1996), he proposed a model of historical recurrence of the avant-garde in which each cycle would improve upon the inevitable failures of previous cycles. He views his roles as critic and historian of art as complementary rather than mutually opposed.

Foster was born Aug. 13, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. His father was a partner in the law firm of Foster, Pepper & Shefelman. He attended Lakeside School in Seattle, where Microsoft founder Bill Gates was a classmate.

He graduated from Princeton in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Art History. He received a Master of Arts in English from Columbia University in 1979. He received his Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York in 1990, writing his dissertation on Surrealism under Rosalind Krauss.


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