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Bloomsbury Material Thought: Toward a Non-Standard Formalism

Name: Material Thought: Toward a Non-Standard Formalism
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Material Thought recovers the legacy of â€˜formalistâ€™ art and theory of the mid-20th century, taking as its point of departure FranÃ§ois Laruelleâ€™s project of â€˜non-standard aesthetics.â€™ Carrying out what Laruelle names a mutation of formalism, recovering its radical scientificity whilst dismantling its reified faÃ§ade, Jonathan Fardy operationalises a radical flattening of the division between making and thinking which he then applies to the work of select artists and critics: Clive Bell, Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, and Rosalind Krauss, as well as artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Giulio Paolini, and Degas. Tending to works that both predate and postdate the high-water mark of formalist art and theory, he recovers and renews a theoretical impetus that proceeded the idealist tendency of high formalism - i.e., the drive to incarnate a materialist aesthetics that took the materiality of art as its critical point of departure. Through his attention to what he calls this materialist-formalism, Fardy restores to 20th-century formalism a vital theoretical and political significance that has been hitherto overshadowed by pure formalism and its depoliticised abstractions.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1350563293
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
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Release Date: 10 December 2026
Listed Since: 18 March 2026

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