Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Modern Art at Princeton University. His most recent book is Art Since 1900 (Thames & Hudson, 2004), cowritten with Rosalind Krauss, Yve Alain Bois and Benjamin Buchloh. He is also the author of Prosthetic Gods (MIT Press 2004); Design and Crime and Other Diatribes (Verso 2002); The Return of the Real (MIT Press, 1996); Compulsive Beauty (MIT Press, 1995); and Recodings: Art, Spectacle and Cultural Politics (Bay Press, 1990). He is also the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Bay Press, 1985) and Richard Serra (MIT Press 2002).