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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The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more

Steve Sabella, born in Jerusalem in 1975, is a Berlin based artist who uses photography and photographic installation as his principle modes of expression. He is the holder of the Ellen Auerbach Award (2008) granted by the Akademie der Künste (Academy of the Arts) in Berlin and was one of the commissioned artists for the inauguration of MATHAF Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha where he presented a critical installation entitled Settlement - Six Israelis & One Palestinian. His artworks were shown in Les Rencontres d’Arles 2013. more

The present paper is devoted to Viktor Shklovsky’s ironic reflection on his well-known penitential article “Monument to a Scientific Error”(1930), in which he ritually renounced his basic Formalist ideas. more

Целью диалектического рассмотрения портрета как результата наложения изобразительных (характерных), конструктивных (тектонических) и экспрессивных форм было усмотрение их единства в целостной структуре художественного образа как выражения индивидуальности, олицетворения и даже “воплощения” в картине уникальной портретной личности. дальше more