{"product_id":"material-thought","title":"Material Thought","description":"Material Thought recovers the legacy of ‘formalist’ art and theory of the mid-20th century, taking as its point of departure François Laruelle’s project of ‘non-standard aesthetics.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Carrying out what Laruelle names a ''mutation'' of formalism, recovering its radical scientificity whilst dismantling its reified façade, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58468348199247,"sku":"9781350563292","price":162.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781350563292_1-material-thought.jpg?v=1786632155","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/material-thought","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}