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FORMLESS:�A�User�s�Guide
 and
OCTOBER:�The�Second�Decade�1986-1996

an evening with 
Yve-Alain Bois
and 
Rosalind E. Krauss
Wednesday, November 19   7 p.m.  (please note later than usual starting time) 
MIT Bartos Theater
List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
A reception will follow and the List Galleries will be open

Rosalind E. Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois discuss their new book Formless: A
User�s Guide, published by Zone Books. In a work destined to become
indispensable to anyone seriously interested in modern art, Krauss and
Bois introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of
avant-garde and modernist art practices. Drawing on Georges Bataille�s
concept of the informe, the authors develop the �formless� as a decisive
shift in the theorizing of modernism.  Standing outside the old battles
between form and content, the �formless� constitutes a third term that
radically reconfigures the field of inquiry. Formless: A User�s Guide
presents a rich and compelling panorama of the formless, charting its
persistence and repression through the history of modernism, and arriving
at a stunning new map of twentieth-century art.

The authors are also among the coeditors of the journal October and will
discuss the upcoming anthology October: The Second Decade, 1986-1996, to
be published by The MIT Press in ealry 1998. Over the past twenty years,
the journal October has become the premiere forum for exploring the
intersections of culture, art and theory.  The present book collects
outstanding examples of the innovative work for which the journal is known
and provides a collective portrait of its ambitions and strengths.  The
selections reveal that in its second decade October  developed an
intensified concern with the role of cultural production within the public
sphere, and a sharp focus on the intersections of cultural practices with
institutional structures.  Topics of inquiry include body politics and
psychoanalysis, spectacle and institutional critique, art practice and art
history, and post-colonial discourses.

Rosalind E. Krauss is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at
Columbia University. Yve-Alain Bois is Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of
Modern Art at Harvard University. They are both editors of the journal
October.

Please join us in celebrating the publication of two seminal books and the
rare opportunity to hear these important scholars.  A reception will
follow in the List Visual Arts Center.

This event is part of authors@mit, a series cosponsored by MIT Humanities
and Dewey Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore, and is cosposnored by the
List Visual Arts Center at MIT.

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