{"product_id":"formless-a-users-guide-9780942299434","title":"Formless: A User's Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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 Users 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 Users 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279662080053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0942299434","price":485.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780942299434.jpg?v=1780605297","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/formless-a-users-guide-9780942299434","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}