Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg

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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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