# The Return of the Real

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- Book: [The Return of the Real](https://www.bookquiver.com/hal-foster/the-return-of-the-real) ([The Return of the Real.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hal-foster/the-return-of-the-real.md))
- Authors: [Hal Foster](https://www.bookquiver.com/hal-foster)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6256-107-5
- Pages: 328
- Published: 1996-09-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary...