Mar 4th 2010
Hal Foster: How to Survive Civilization, or What I Have Learned from Dada
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 4th, from 6PM - 7PM
“Petrified social conditions must be made to dance again by singing them their own song,” the young Karl Marx once wrote. Hal Foster, Princeton University, looks at modernist art with an eye to this old imperative and a focus on the mimetic excess one finds in Dada and its progeny.
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