{"product_id":"9781350563292","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Material Thought : Towards a Non-Standard Formalism by Dr Jonathan Fardy","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 10\/12\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaterial Thought recovers the legacy of `formalist' art and theory of the mid-20th century, taking as its point of departure Fran?ois Laruelle's project of `non-standard aesthetics.' Carrying out what Laruelle names a `mutation' of formalism, recovering its radical politics whilst dismantling its reified fa?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: Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Julia Margaret Cameron, Giulio Paolini, Mario Merz, and Pino Pascali. 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56998980944245,"sku":"9781350563292","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781350563292","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}