Formless : a user's guide
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Formless : a user's guide
Zone Books , Distributed by MIT Press, 1997
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L'informe : mode d'emploi
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Translation of: L'informe : mode d'emploi
Catalog of an exhibition held May 21-Aug. 26, 1996, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Exhibitor: Jean Dubuffet, Claes Oldenburg, Lucio Fontana ... [et. al]
Originally published in France by Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 1996
Bibliographical references: p. 255-287
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780942299434
Description
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.
Table of 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
- threshold
- uncanny
- very slow
- water closet
- x marks the spot
- yo-yo
- zone. Conclusion: the destiny of the informe.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780942299441
Description
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.
Table of 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
- threshold
- uncanny
- very slow
- water closet
- x marks the spot
- yo-yo
- zone. Conclusion: the destiny of the informe.
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