{"product_id":"material-thought","title":"Material Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaterial Thought\u003c\/i\u003e recovers the legacy of ‘formalist’ art and theory of the mid-20th century, t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eaking as its point of departure François Laruelle’s project of ‘non-standard aesthetics.’\u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57521562419544,"sku":"9781350563292","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/material-thought","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}