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Formless : A User's Guide by Rosalind E. Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois (1997, Hardcover)
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"Formless: A User's Guide" by Yve-Alain Bois is a hardcover book first published in 1997 by Zone Books. The book, with a focus on design and art, features illustrations and is written in English. It weighs 36.9 ounces, has 304 pages, and measures 11 inches in length, 1.2 inches in height, and 19.7 inches in width. The first edition hardcover book is a valuable resource for those interested in the history and general overview of design and art."
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Product Identifiers
PublisherZone Books
ISBN-100942299434
ISBN-139780942299434
eBay Product ID (ePID)172235
Product Key Features
Original LanguageFrench
Book TitleFormless : a User's Guide
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicGeneral, History / General
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Art
AuthorRosalind E. Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight36.9 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width19.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-049170
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal709/.04/007444361
SynopsisOne of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.Revolving around four central and intrinsically flawed characters, 'Beautiful Losers' is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and mentor 'F' and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and 'F' at the novel's start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks.The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter's classic novel, this is Leonard Cohen's most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion.Not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality., 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., 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., Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of avant-garde and modernist art practices.
LC Classification NumberN6488.F8P316813 1997
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