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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (1983) is a book by American art critic Hal Foster. The book identified the end of the modern era and the arrival of postmodernism.

In his introduction, Foster described a distinction between complicity with and resistance to capitalism within postmodernism. The book included contributions by Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jürgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Edward Saïd, and Gregory Ulmer.

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