![]() ![]() His writing has spanned the high theory journal October – where he has served as longtime editor – and the more general interest London Review of Books. ![]() Foster looks to their work to try to understand the deep, unresolved spiritual and material crisis of postwar humanism, the implications of which stretch into the present.įoster’s own influence is not in doubt. ![]() In it, he looks to an eccentric constellations of artistic figures, among them Jean Dubuffet, the French father of Art Brut the protean Danish artist Asger Jorn, who went from the CoBrA group to Situationism the Scottish proto-Pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi and the US-based Claes Oldenburg, best known for his deliriously gigantic sculptures of consumer objects. Their Bollingen Foundation, which was named after Carl Jung’s country home and which sponsored the Mellon Lectures, was committed to promoting the “steady drive toward reclaiming interiority, a quest for meaning… a part of the struggle for revaluation and rebounding of a collapsed Western civilization,” according to the NGA’s official history.Īs it so happens, this postwar rhetoric of civilizational crisis is exactly what Foster, the eminent Princeton art historian and critic, returns to examine in his new project. Patrons Paul and Mary Mellon helped launch the lecture series in 1949, in the postwar moment when the United States was consolidating itself as an intellectual center. ![]()
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