Bad New Days

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Deft, opinionated ... Foster is one of those rare art theorists whose measured prose can engage a wider readership, cutting through the philosophical inflationism that afflicts much of the higher gossip among art critics. - Guardian Bad New Days attempts to recover the idea of an avant-garde after a hard half-century of infighting, obfuscation, rivalry, and successive failures to engage with the real world of politics. -Mark Kingwell, Harper's Foster's strength lies in his erudite attention to those artists that have emerged as definitive of their particular moment. -Mostafa Heddaya, Artinfo Praise for The Art-Architecture Complex : I find it refreshing to encounter a degree of intellectual rigour you don't find too often on my side of the fence. -Rowan Moore, Observer The Art-Architecture Complex is a timely tome with an urgent message for anyone on the art or architecture axis. - Time Out The Art- Architecture Complex is a persistently insightful, elliptical account of an ambiguous symbiosis. -Owen Hatherley Elegant and incisive. - Boston Review