Formless
Subtitle: a user's guide
By: Yve-Alain Bois, Rosalind E. Krauss.
Contributors: Krauss, Rosalind E.; Centre Georges Pompidou.
Publisher: Zone Books; Distributed by MIT Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-287) and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held May 21-Aug. 26, 1996, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.