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Formless: Ways in and Out of Form

Formless: Ways in and Out of Form

Collier, Peter
Crowley, Patrick
Hegarty, Paul

Paperback

Series: European Connections, Book 11

PhilosophyGeneral ArtGeneral European History

ISBN10: 3039100564
ISBN13: 9783039100569
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Jan 6 2005
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The papers in this volume challenge the concept of form and aim to set out, explore and develop different theories and examples of 'the formless'. In so doing, they raise questions of form, and notions of formlessness (as distinct from something called 'the formless'). The starting point for many of the contributors is Georges Bataille's highly influential article entitled 'informe' ('formless'). Here, in a context where art, philosophy and anthropology were merging, Bataille tried to question the idea of formlessness as simply applying to things without form. This book, through a diversity of articles in various domains, asks how and why 'the formless' is such a dominant idea from the nineteenth century onwards and it asks the question: 'what is formless?'

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