Books by Hal Foster

A scoundrel has ruled over the continent''s troubadours for the past three years, introducing scum and villainy into their ranks. Arn and Court Jester sir Dinadan travel to France to set things right, while Prince Valiant accompanies the headstrong Gunther of Germany on his quest to recover stolen holy relics and claim a wife in Jerusalem. The mercenary army of a Persian warlord sweeps across the Middle East, forcing Queen Aleta to seek refuge in a hidden utopian city ruled by women. Val competes in tournaments in Marseille and Camelot and reunites with Sir Lancelotm but a tragic death impacts a member of Val''s family. Plus: more dazzling commercial illustration work by Hal Foster.

During a journey back to her Misty Isles kingdom, Aleta is hypnotised and abducted by a wizard. Val pursues them to the evil Hashida''s cavernous domain, only to learn that Aleta can rescue herself. Aleta''s younger sister Helene is gambled away by her husband to a Corsair mercenary, drawing Prince Valiant and his Singing Sword into a deadly duel. And in between battles, romance has its way with kings, wizards, and slaves. This edition includes a large gallery of Hal Foster''s art for the 1930 U.S. Naval Academy yearbook, and an interview with Mad artist Angelo Torres.

Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the myriad stories of art from 1900 to the present.

There's Merlin, Mordred, Maeve, Monsters, and Magic in this collection of the beloved Arthurian newspaper strip!

In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian and critic Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the mass devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by "positive barbarism," the enigmatic idea that modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization become barbaric, Foster examines the variety of ways key figures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a "brutal aesthetics" adequate to the destruction all around them. With a focus on the philosopher Georges Bataille, the painters Jean Dubuffet and Asger Jorn, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and Claes Oldenburg, Foster investigates this manifold move to strip art down, or to reveal it as already bare, in order to begin again.

Kerry James Marshall is one of America’s greatest living painters. History of Painting presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself.In History of Painting, the artist has widened his scope to include both figurative and nonfigurative works that deal explicitly with art history, race, and gender, as well as force us to reexamine how artworks are received in the world and in the art market. In the paintings in this book, Marshall’s critique of history and of dominant white narratives is present, even as the subjects of the paintings move between reproductions of auction catalogues, abstract works, and scenes of everyday life.  Essays by Teju Cole and Hal Foster help readers navigate the artist’s masterful vision, decoding complexly layered works such as Untitled (Underpainting) (2018) and Marshall’s own artistic philosophy. This catalogue is published on the occasion of Marshall’s eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, London, in 2018.

Val must win back the queen of (his) heart, Aleta, and much more in this collection of the King-Arthur inspired classic Sunday adventure strip.

After his long sojourn in the Mediterranean, Prince Valiant is back in Britain, where he takes on a new, intricate mission on behalf of King Arthur. Here, Valiant finds himself in the middle of a conflict between Saxon settlers and violent Viking raiders. Gawain''s return journey to Camelot is fraught with misadventure as he is beset by jealous romantic rivals, a marriage-minded widow and a thieving sorcerer. Young Galan goes on a hunt to capture the fabled unicorn, and Arn, after losing his horse in a Welsh bog, is enslaved and held for ransom.

Arn goes berserk, and there are love triangles, slave rebellions, greedy governors, and more in this volume of the Arthurian-inspired comic strip.

In this latest volume of the Arthurian-inspired comics page, Arn lands on the New World, and Aleta is mistaken for a mermaid. The volume also includes a feature on Bob Fujitani''s run of Prince Valiant stories in the Dell comic books, and a gallery of Valiant covers from books and comics. Hal Foster''s Prince Valiant continues as one of the all-time magnificent romantic adventure comics ever conceived and Fantagraphic''s reprinting is the loveliest treatment of the strip in the history of publishing.

Valiant fights battles large and small, and Prince Arn comes to the rescue, in this classically illustrative Sunday comic strip based on the King Arthur mythos.

Arvak the Red Stallion's first appearance occurs in this volume of the classically illustrative Sunday comic strip, based on the King Arthur myth.

Aleta is kidnapped and Val fights famine in the latest collection of the King Arthur-inspired newspaper strip.

A critical primer on artist Richard Serra's work.

Prince Val, Aleta and Arn continue their newspaper page adventures in Scotland, Wales, Rome and beyond: this volume has "extras."

Prince Valiant and Aleta travel to Canada, where their child is born, in this Legends-of-the-Roundtable-inspired strip.

A wide-ranging, gripping lecture on Roy Lichtenstein.

A survey of the explosive rise of Pop from 1950s-60s.