Compulsive Beauty by Hal Foster Quebec Thom is Senior Curator at

Thom is Senior Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery

and reveals

a project that turned out to be the last completed by the artist

With stops along the way

so that by page 372 even the shiest reader will be calling

Compulsive Beauty by Hal Foster Quebec Thom is Senior Curator atCompulsive Beauty by Hal Foster 8vo. pp. xxi, 313. b w illustrations. index. hardcover. dw. (fine condition). Cambridge: The MIT Press, [1993]. out of print. ISBN 10: 0262061600 ISBN 13: 978 0262061605 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive