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Design and crime : and other diatribes / Hal Foster.

By: Foster, Hal.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2003Description: xv, 176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.ISBN: 1859844537.Subject(s): Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century | Design -- History -- 20th century | Art criticism -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 306.47
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In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, Hal Foster explores the history of a design led culture and in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present asks if the new political economy of design is a cultural crime.

Originally published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. A co-editor of October magazine and books, he is the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic , and the author of Design and Crime , Recording , The Return of the Real , Compulsive Beauty and The Art-Architecture Complex .