Hal Foster (art historian)
Hal Foster (born August 13, 1955 in Seattle ) is an American art historian , publicist and art critic. He is Professor of Art History and Archeology at Princeton University in New Jersey .
Career
Foster was the son of a well-to-do lawyer and attended private school in Seattle. Bill Gates was one of his classmates . From 1977 he studied English literature and art history at Princeton University ( Bachelor of Arts (BA) with Magna cum laude ) and obtained his Master of Arts (MA) in English literature from Columbia University in 1979 . In 1990 he received his PhD in art history from the City University of New York .
Act
From 1987 to 1991, Foster was Director of Critical and Curatorial Studies in the Whitney Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. From 1991 to 1993 he was a lecturer in art history and comparative literature at Cornell University in Ithaca (New York) and in 1996 a visiting professor in art history at the University of California at Berkeley .
In 1997 he was appointed professor of art history and archeology at Princeton University. He held lectures and seminars in modern and contemporary art and art theory. He has held the Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archeology there since 2000 .
He is, among others, with Benjamin Buchloh and Rosalind Krauss , with whom he obtained his doctorate, co-editor of the art magazine October, which appears in the MIT-Press . Foster regularly writes art reviews and literary reviews for Artforum and The London Review of Books . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010).
Hal Foster was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in spring 2011 .
Fonts
- The Art-Architecture Complex. Verso Book, New York / London, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84467-689-7 .
- Pop Art. Phaidon Press, London 2005, ISBN 0-7148-4363-6 .
- with Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin Buchloh: Art Since 1900: Modernism, Anti-Modernism, Postmodernism. Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-23818-9 .
- Prosthetic gods. MIT Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 2004, ISBN 0-262-06242-9 .
- as editor: Richard Serra. MIT Press, 2000, ISBN 0-262-56130-1 .
- Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes). Verso, London 2003, ISBN 1-85984-453-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hal Foster in the catalog of the German National Library
- Princeton University website
- Bret Schneider : A funeral for the wrong corpse? Interview with Hal Foster on platypus1917.org (English)
- American Academy in Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foster, Hal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art historian, publicist, and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle |