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Formless: A User's Guide Yve-Alain Bois, Rosalind E. Krauss
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Discussion: Formless: A User's Guide, by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, maps out a third area beyond form and thematic content to interpret modernistic visual arts. Double Ray Guns: Cross, Airplanes, Absurd Ray Guns: Ice Cream Sodas. Krauss introduce a range of concepts in understanding avant-garde and modernist art practices. Published in: OCTOBER 78 MIT Press, Cambridge Mass.,1996. JL: Such a difficult question to answer! Sometime in 1965 Bruce Nauman made a plaster cast of the space under his chair. Authors Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. In Formless: A User's Guide (1997), Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss critique a certain history of modernism. 'A' in "Formless: A User's Guide". Formless: A User's Guide by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. But I don't want to fall into the problem that Krauss and Bois' “Formless: a users guide” had of just talking about the discourse of art in terms of how it dealt with things outside of composition. Yve-Alain Bois quotes Oldenburg in Formless A User's Guide: “Examples: Legs, Sevens, Pistols, Arms, Phalli-Simple Ray Guns. Krauss is a definitive work that I feel adds much weight to the importance of study and understanding to this important discussion. For anyone interested in modern art, Formless should be the textbook of choice. A User's Guide to Entropy[*] X MARKS THE SPOT. SP: Reading Gertrude Stein, Portraits; Giorgio Manganelli, La Notte; Allen Fisher, Entanglement; Bois & Krauss, Formless: A User's Guide; Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology; Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labyrinth.