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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 1997Distributor: Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press Description: 296 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0942299434
  • 9780942299434
  • 0942299442
  • 9780942299441
Uniform titles:
  • Informe. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.04
LOC classification:
  • N6488.F8 P316813 1997
Contents:
Preface -- 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.
Summary: Explores the concept of the formless in twentieth century art.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 709.04 BOI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Missing A145227B

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-287) and index.

Preface -- 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.

Explores the concept of the formless in twentieth century art.

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