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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... visual art , especially paint- ing , addresses itself uniquely to the sense of sight . This idea was contemporaneous with impressionism and also with the beginnings of art history as a “ scientific " discipline ( it was a central ...
... visual art , especially paint- ing , addresses itself uniquely to the sense of sight . This idea was contemporaneous with impressionism and also with the beginnings of art history as a “ scientific " discipline ( it was a central ...
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... visual coherence . - This is the situation – what we might call the modernist cam- paign for visual mastery - into which Duchamp , the precision ocu- list , enters . Having called himself , after all , some kind of doctor , his ...
... visual coherence . - This is the situation – what we might call the modernist cam- paign for visual mastery - into which Duchamp , the precision ocu- list , enters . Having called himself , after all , some kind of doctor , his ...
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... visual and the bodily formed a single continuum – to one that , in dissembling no longer , changes the medium of address . Now declaring openly the givens of the pic- torial medium - the flatness of its surface and the specificity of ...
... visual and the bodily formed a single continuum – to one that , in dissembling no longer , changes the medium of address . Now declaring openly the givens of the pic- torial medium - the flatness of its surface and the specificity of ...
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PREFACE | 9 |
BASE MATERIALISM Abattoir 43 | 21 |
HORIZONTALITY Gestalt | 89 |
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