#328 November–January 19/20 books “Crisis Formalism” proposes that form

“Crisis Formalism” proposes that form – often reduced to mere aesthetic expression – can become the site where crisis is contained

The Ephemerality That Defines Fashion Is the Root of Its Prejudice by Gea Politi and Cristiano Seganfreddo

and the exhausted representational function of sculpture

exposing the traps of authorship and representation

#328 November–January 19/20 books “Crisis Formalism” proposes that formThis issue of Flash Art, with essays by Dorothea von Hantelmann and Isobel Harbison, dedicates sixteen pages dossier to the work of Rebecca Horn, a pivotal figure of performative art, and develops a series of reflections on a younger generation of contemporary artists who are now using their bodies or their personas as agents in an attempt to re cognize themselves in a present that increasingly rewards the loss of self consciousness. Also in this