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Osip Brik, The So-Called Formalist Method

The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more

Screening

Duncan Campbell It for Others

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Workshop

Marx, Form, Isms

A Re-Enactment of the 1920s Debates presented by the Retro-Formalism Group in cooperation with Marxism in Culture (University of London) and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (University of Westminster) June 4.-5th 2015 Organised by David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles more

Talk

Igor Chubarov: Limits of the Formalist Method in Understanding Portraiture: The Russian Avant-Garde and The Art of the Portrait.

From a dialectic perspective, portraits are seen to be the result of the application of distinct, expressive and constructive methods. Such a perspective examines how these methods can be combined in the overall structure of an artistic image to express the uniqueness and even the personality, the aura, of a piece of art. дальше more

Conference Proposal

The Methodology of Error

Why is the error significant? According to Jan Levchenko's criticism of the formalist methodology of the error, in his book "The Other Science" ("Drugaya nauka", 2012), an error becomes significant because it attracts our attention. more weiterlesen дальше

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Alexander Dmitriev: Worse than a Mistake? Epigonism and Routinisation in Russian Formalism

As scholars and as writers, the founding fathers of Russian Formalism were not afraid to err in the conventional sense, but what definitely was amongst their fears were epigonism and imitation as an academic and literary secondary activity. However, the repetition or automation of some characteristic features was obvious in the texts of Shklovsky and in the early prose of Tynianov during the 1920s. more

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