Formless: A User's GuideZone Books, 1997 - 296 pagina's Although it is more than 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 twentieth-century art. In Formless: A User's Guide, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind 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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... York . matical frock coat , " whatever does not lend itself to any metaphori- cal displacement , whatever does not allow itself to be in - formed . According to Bataille , matter is seductive waste , appealing to what is most infantile ...
... York . matical frock coat , " whatever does not lend itself to any metaphori- cal displacement , whatever does not allow itself to be in - formed . According to Bataille , matter is seductive waste , appealing to what is most infantile ...
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... . Chromogenic color print , 19 % x 23 % inches . Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago , Gerald S. Elliott Collection . Photo OMCA , Chicago by Joe Ziolkowski . 1997 Bruce Nauman / ARS , New York . Q Qualities ( Without ) Yve - Alain Bois "
... . Chromogenic color print , 19 % x 23 % inches . Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago , Gerald S. Elliott Collection . Photo OMCA , Chicago by Joe Ziolkowski . 1997 Bruce Nauman / ARS , New York . Q Qualities ( Without ) Yve - Alain Bois "
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... York . 2. Jean Paulhan , L'Art informel ( Paris : Gallimard , 1962 ) , p . 7 . 3. Ibid . , , p . 20 . 4. See Jean Fautrier , “ Parallèles sur l'informel " ( 1958 ) , reprinted in Jean Fautrier , exhibition catalogue ( Paris : Musée d ...
... York . 2. Jean Paulhan , L'Art informel ( Paris : Gallimard , 1962 ) , p . 7 . 3. Ibid . , , p . 20 . 4. See Jean Fautrier , “ Parallèles sur l'informel " ( 1958 ) , reprinted in Jean Fautrier , exhibition catalogue ( Paris : Musée d ...
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