What to Read After The return of the real
Readers who loved The return of the real by Hal Foster keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The return of the real is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The return of the real
Relational aesthetics
Art and culture
The Conspiracy of Art
After the End of Art
The Visual Culture Reader
Techniques of the observer
Chromophobia (FOCI)
Philosophies of Art and Beauty
Conceptual art
Einstein, Picasso
Postmodernist Fiction
Installation Art
Feelings are facts
The production of space
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Powers of horror
Art and illusion
S/Z
Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)
Mythologies
Aesthetic theory
Différence et répétition
The location of culture
Phenomenology of Perception