Hal Foster
Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Department of Art and Archaeology
A.B., Princeton University
M.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., City University of New York
Contact
Office: 314 McCormick Hall
Email: hfoster@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-3790
Profile
Hal Foster, Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology, came to Princeton in 1997. He teaches courses in modernist and contemporary art and theory; he also directs the graduate proseminar in art-historical methodology. Foster is a faculty member of the School of Architecture and an associate faculty member of the Department of German; he also works with Media and Modernity, European Cultural Studies, and the Ph.D Program in the Humanities. His latest book is The Art-Architecture Complex (2011), a sequel to his "Design and Crime" (2002); his "First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha" also appeared in late 2011. Foster is presently at work on a theory of modernism as a way (in the words of Walter Benjamin) "to outlive culture, if need be." A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he writes regularly for October (which he co-edits), Artforum, The London Review of Books, and New Left Review.
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Department Profile: Art and Archaeology
