Close Reading
Osip Brik, The So-Called Formalist Method
The So-Called Formalist Method (1923)
The So-Called Formalist Method (1923)
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
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. more 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 дальше more weiterlesen
Compilation of source material for the close reading. weiterlesen more дальше
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