The return of the real: the avant-garde at the end of the century

The Avant-Garde at the end of the Century After the dominand models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, in this text Hal Foster argues that we are now witness to a `return to the real` -to art and theory that seek to be grounded in bodies and sites, identities and communities.