Hal Foster on Brutal Aesthetics, Part 1

Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. In the six-part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal Foster explores the pervasive turn, from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s, to the brut and the brutalist, the animal and the creaturely, as these are manifest in the early work of Jean Dubuffet, Georges Bataille, Asger Jorn, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Claes Oldenburg. In the first lecture, “Walter Benjamin and His Barbarians,” held on April 8, 2018, Foster probes how modernist art “teaches us to survive civilization if need be.”
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[@magicknight13]

Reading this book now! Thank you for the full series upload!

[@hglundahl]

I was looking for an interview with the _other_ Hal Foster. August 16, 1892 - July 25, 1982, full name and distinction Harold Rudolf Foster, FRSA.
And I was wondering what he could have to do with Brutal Aesthetics!
I mean, what he drew in Prince Valiant comics was itself rather ligne claire, with lots of realism, right?