Design and Crime and Other Diatribes
by Foster, Hal
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1859846688
- ISBN 13
- 9781859846681
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About This Item
London and New York: Verso Books, 2002. Cloth, xv, 176 pages, illustrations (some colour); 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of design. Written in a lively style Design and Crime explores the historical relations of modern art and modern museum, the conceptual vicissitudes of art history and visual studies, the recent travails of art criticism, and the double aftermath of modernism and postmodernism in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007616
- Title
- Design and Crime and Other Diatribes
- Author
- Foster, Hal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1859846688
- ISBN 13
- 9781859846681
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Aesthetics; Architecture / Criticism; Architecture / Decoration & Ornament;
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