Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
By Hal Foster, professor of art and archaeology
Published March 12, 2021
Brutal Aesthetics explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.
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