The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more

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

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Photographs by Andrew Fisher more дальше weiterlesen

The ideas I wish to present in my talk were inspired by Viktor Shklovsky's “Monument to a Scientific Error“ (1930). I intend to look at the Methodology of the Error as being one discrete method to speculate on poetic chance more

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 дальше more