Formless : a user's guide /
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 1997.Description: 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmISBN:- 0942299434
- 9780942299434
- 9780942299441
- Informe. English
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Catalogue of an exhibition held May 21-Aug. 26, 1996, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-287) and index.
Introduction: The Use Value of "Formless" -- Base Materialism. Abattoir. Base Materialism. Cadaver. Dialectic. Entropy. Figure -- Horizontality. Gestalt. Horizontality. Isotropy. Jeu Lugubre. Kitsch. Liquid Words -- Pulse. "Moteur!" No to ... the Informel. No to ... Joseph Beuys. Olympia. Part Object. Pulse -- Entropy. Qualities (Without). Ray Guns. Sweats of the Hippo. Threshole. Uncanny. Very Slow. Water Closet. X Marks the Spot. Yo-yo. Zone. Conclusion: The Destiny of the Informe.
Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss convincingly introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of avant-garde and modernist art practices. In Formless: A User's Guide, Bois and Krauss present a rich and compelling panorama of the formless. They chart its persistence within a history of modernism that has always repressed it in the interest of privileging formal mastery, and they assess its destiny within current artistic production.