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Names: Foster, Hal, author.
Title: Brutal aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg / Hal Foster.
Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] | Series: The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2018 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020011054 | ISBN 9780691202600 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Art, Modern—20th century. | Aesthetics, Modern—20th century. | Civilization in art.
Classification: LCC N6490 .F66 2020 | DDC 709.04—dc23
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This is the sixty-seventh volume of the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, which are delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. This volume is based on lectures delivered in 2018. The volumes of lectures constitute Number XXXV in the Bollingen Series, supported by the Bollingen Foundation.
This publication is made possible in part from the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
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