{"product_id":"design-and-crime-and-other-diatribes-by-hal-foster","title":"'Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)' by Hal Foster","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHal Foster’s \u003cem\u003eDesign and Crime\u003c\/em\u003e is a compact collection of essays on architecture, design, art and the aesthetics of city life.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from Adolf Loos’s famous attack on ornament, Foster asks what happens when design becomes the condition of almost everything: buildings, brands, museums, identities, commodities, even political culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving through figures including Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and the legacy of modernism, Foster is especially sharp on the merger of culture and commerce, the rise of the designer as a dominant cultural figure. The essays are polemical without being throwaway: brief, argumentative pieces about what gets lost when every object and experience is expected to announce itself aesthetically. A useful bridge between art criticism, architecture and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerso, London\/New York. This edition first published 2002; paperback edition first published 2003. Radical Thinkers series. Paperback. Light shelf wear and faint handling marks to covers, minor corner wear; internally clean and unmarked, binding firm. Very good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46147823599699,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_14.png?v=1788493723","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/design-and-crime-and-other-diatribes-by-hal-foster","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}