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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... Kitsch Yve - Alain Bois The point from which Clement Greenberg's critical work was launched , as stated in his first published text , " Avant - Garde and Kitsch " ( 1939 ) , was the dialectical opposition of modernism and kitsch , the ...
... Kitsch Yve - Alain Bois The point from which Clement Greenberg's critical work was launched , as stated in his first published text , " Avant - Garde and Kitsch " ( 1939 ) , was the dialectical opposition of modernism and kitsch , the ...
Pagina 118
... ( kitsch ) . Kitsch is like a poisonous substance that is mixed in with art . Discharging that poison is one of the most difficult tasks art faces at the present time , " he wrote in Aesthetic Theory . ' It might seem strange that , in an ...
... ( kitsch ) . Kitsch is like a poisonous substance that is mixed in with art . Discharging that poison is one of the most difficult tasks art faces at the present time , " he wrote in Aesthetic Theory . ' It might seem strange that , in an ...
Pagina 119
... kitsch vulgarity ( " Why should it be that advertising , which has endowed the modern world with so many unexpected creatures , has yet to have entered the domain of stat- uary : advertising , whose billboards bestow such grandeur on ...
... kitsch vulgarity ( " Why should it be that advertising , which has endowed the modern world with so many unexpected creatures , has yet to have entered the domain of stat- uary : advertising , whose billboards bestow such grandeur on ...
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PREFACE | 9 |
BASE MATERIALISM Abattoir 43 | 21 |
HORIZONTALITY Gestalt | 89 |
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