Prosthetic Gods Foster Hal Princeton University
Prosthetic Gods Foster Hal Princeton University Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Guaguin, Picasso, F. T. In…
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Prosthetic Gods Foster Hal Princeton University
Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Guaguin, Picasso, F. T. In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others.How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them?
These diverse figures were all fascinated by fictions of origin, either primordial and tribal or futuristic and technological. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. In this way, Foster argues, two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine.
Foster begins with the primitivist fantasies of Gauguin and Picasso, which he examines through the Freudian lens of the primal scene. He then turns to the purist obsessions of
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