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Design and crime : and other diatribes

Hal Foster (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2002
Verso, London, 2002
Essays
xv, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
9781859846681, 1859846688
49239187
Part I. Architecture and design
1. Brow beaten
2. Design and crime
3. Master builder
4. Architecture and empire
Part II. Art and archive
5. Archives of modern art
6. Antinomies in art history
7. Art critics in extremis
8. This funeral is for the wrong corpse