FormlessIn a work that will become indispensable to anyone seriously interested in modern art, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of avant-garde and modernist art practices. Formless: A User's Guide constitutes a decisive and dramatic transformation of the study of twentieth-century culture. Although it has been over sixty years since Georges Bataille undertook his philosophical development of the term informe, only in recent years has the idea of the "formless" been deployed in the theorizing and reconfiguring of the field of twentieth-century art. This is partly because that field has most often been crudely set up as a battle between form and content; "formless" constitutes a third term standing outside that opposition, outside the binary thinking that is itself formal. 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. In the domain of practice, they analyze it as an operational tool, the structural cunning of which has repeatedly been suppressed in the service of a thematics of art. Neither theme nor form, formless is, as Bataille himself expressed it, a "job." The job of Formless: A User's Guide is to explore the power of the informe. A stunning new map of twentieth-century art emerges from this reconceptualization and from the brilliantly original analyses of the work of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Lucio Fontana, Cindy Sherman, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Dubuffet, Robert Smithson, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others. |
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Pagina 121
Jean Fautrier, as well, made good use of one of the cardinal aspects of kitsch,
namelv its "fakeness" (all kitsch is phoney). From the time of his Otages series,
begun in 1943, he separated texture (using white paste and, later, gesso) and
color ...
Jean Fautrier, as well, made good use of one of the cardinal aspects of kitsch,
namelv its "fakeness" (all kitsch is phoney). From the time of his Otages series,
begun in 1943, he separated texture (using white paste and, later, gesso) and
color ...
Pagina 122
Hence the huge canvases of shoes, sprinkled with diamond dust (akin to the
sparkles in Fontana's Fine di Dio), which he would make toward the end of his life
, might be seen as so many homages to Fautrier, Fautrier who sported — for the ...
Hence the huge canvases of shoes, sprinkled with diamond dust (akin to the
sparkles in Fontana's Fine di Dio), which he would make toward the end of his life
, might be seen as so many homages to Fautrier, Fautrier who sported — for the ...
Pagina 140
But what do Fautrier, Wols, and Dubuffet have to do with either of these concepts
? There are three possible answers to that question. First, one might argue that,
despite these artists' own feelings on the subject, Fautrier, Dubuffet, and Wols are
...
But what do Fautrier, Wols, and Dubuffet have to do with either of these concepts
? There are three possible answers to that question. First, one might argue that,
despite these artists' own feelings on the subject, Fautrier, Dubuffet, and Wols are
...
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Qualities Without | 169 |
Sweats of the Hippo | 180 |
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