Acknowledgements Credits Introduction Alex Potts From Formation to Dismantling 1 Strategies of Occupying Space in Brazil, from Tarsila to Oiticica 2 'Free Form': Brazilian Mode of Abstraction or a Malaise in History 3 All This Geometry, Where Does It Come from, Where Does It Go? 4 Trees of Brazil 5 The Situation of Art and the 'Pensée Unique' 6 Formation and Dismantling of a Brazilian Visual System From Dismantling to Struggle 7 From the Debate about Formation to Strike as Formation 8 The Indignity of São Paulo 9 Art against the Grain Against Formalism: Art, History and Criticism 10 Work, Art and History: A Counterpoint between Periphery and Centre 11 Notes on Modernisation, from the Periphery: On David Craven's 'Alternative Modernism' 12 Art as Work (Interview) 13 International Benefit Society of Friends of Form and Bulletin on the Brazilian Division Index of Artworks Cited Bibliography Index.