Against Affective FormalismFor nearly fifty years the humanities have been confined by a series of critiques: of the subject, of representation, of the visual, of modernism, of autonomy, of intention, of art itself. In their place various materialities have appeared: signs, identities, bodies, history, and works. Against Affective Formalism challenges these orthodoxies. What I am after, above all, is expression, Henri Matisse declared. Matisse believed that through the careful