Main entry:

Bois, Yve-Alain, author.

Title & Author:

Formless : a user's guide / Yve-Alain Bois, Rosalind E. Krauss.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 1997.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press

Description:

296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-287) and index.
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. Threshole. Uncanny. Very Slow. Water Closet. X Marks the Spot. Yo-yo. Zone. Conclusion: The Destiny of the Informe.
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In English; translated from the French.

Exhibitions:

Catalog of an exhibition held May 21-Aug. 26, 1996, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Summary:

Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss convincingly introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of avant-garde and modernist art practices. 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.

ISBN:

9780942299434 (cloth)
0942299434 (cloth)
9780942299441 (paperback)
0942299442 (paperback)

Subject:

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 Criticism and interpretation.
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 Critique et interprétation.
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Modern.
Künstlerische Form
Ästhetik
Beeldende kunsten.
Conceptuele kunst.
Amorf materiaal.

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Paris 1996.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Krauss, Rosalind E., author.
Bois, Yve-Alain. Informe : mode d'emploi.
Centre Georges Pompidou, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 180533
Call No.: ID N6488.F8.P316; ID:98-B917
Status: Available