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Formless : a user's guide /

By: Contributor(s): 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
Uniform titles:
  • Informe. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General N 6488 BOI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0007896
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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.

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