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
The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more
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
In our second workshop we would like to differentiate between formalist theory on the one hand and the artists of the Russian avant-garde on the other. To this end we chose to focus on the fate of formalist theory during the Stalinist 1930s when it became nearly impossible to draw the line between Formalism and avant-garde art weiterlesen more дальше
Photographs by Andrew Fisher weiterlesen дальше more
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