What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle

by Hal Foster

Book Overview

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump

If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the Left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? How to out-dada President Ubu?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178873811X
• ISBN13: 9781788738118
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"