false 323330 2 In a work that will become indispensable to anyone seriously interested in modern art, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of avant-garde and modernist art practices. <i>Formless: A User's Guide</i> constitutes a decisive and dramatic transformation of the study of twentieth-century culture. Although it has been over sixty years since Georges Bataille undertook his philosophical development of the term <i>informe</i>, only in recent years has the idea of the "formless" been deployed in the theorizing and reconfiguring of the field of twentieth-century art. This is partly because that field has most often been crudely set up as a battle between form and content; "formless" constitutes a third term standing outside that opposition, outside the binary thinking that is itself formal.<br /> <br /> In <i>Formless: A User's Guide</i>, 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. 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 <i>Formless: A User's Guide</i> is to explore the power of the <i>informe</i>. 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. 314035 15 10 1997 Formless: A User's Guide total:44|5:18|4:20|3:3|2:2|1:1| 44 184 78 4 4 1 false false Wed Jul 25 14:38:18 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 14:38:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 19:55:11 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 19:59:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Mar 28 19:22:08 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 18:39:15 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jul 15 16:56:08 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 16:56:46 -0700 2008 totally dirt]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 21 07:40:52 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 07:40:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 07 08:57:32 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 08:57:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 06 19:17:36 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 19:17:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 24 18:28:27 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 18:28:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 04 19:40:23 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 19:40:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 14:54:12 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 14:54:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 21 09:22:40 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 09:22:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 16 09:52:14 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 09:52:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 06 12:14:39 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 12:14:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 02 16:17:37 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 16:17:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:12:41 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 00:12:41 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 07 12:46:12 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 12:46:12 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 03 20:00:49 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 20:00:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 25 06:45:11 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 06:45:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 12 14:23:38 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 14:23:38 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Feb 18 10:01:51 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 17:03:01 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 10:01:51 -0800 2009