{"product_id":"anexact-form-and-modernist-culture-james-reath-9781399547499","title":"Anexact Form and Modernist Culture","description":"What happens to form in a time of random walks and Uncertainty Principles, self-organising plasma membranes and multivalent logics? And how might we better categorise the modernist avant-garde's confrontation with such complex and contradictory formalisms? \u003ci\u003eAnexact Form and Modernist Culture\u003c\/i\u003e presents a soft taxonomy of the long mid-century avant-garde's fuzzy, grey, and viscous forms while investigating the aesthetic and affective valences of that which is 'essentially and not accidentally inexact', as Edmund Husserl writes in \u003ci\u003eIdeas I \u003c\/i\u003e(1913). Across five chapters - on doodles and inkblots; iridescent surfaces and the noise of becoming; the erratic cultural life of precision; the mesomorphic imagination of protoplasm; and the groovy aesthetics of industrial chemistry - \u003ci\u003eAnexact Form and Modernist Culture \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a unique examination of avant-garde art and literature in a time of unprecedented err, smudge, ooze and wriggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Reath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399547496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399547499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"James Reath","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47200658948351,"sku":"9781399547499","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd9684ab-509e-4cd2-9f96-63e83af2bf54.jpg?v=1756787519","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anexact-form-and-modernist-culture-james-reath-9781399547499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}