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(n.)Rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms, as in religion or…
(n.)An instance of rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms.
(n.)A method of aesthetic analysis that emphasizes structural elements and…
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Formalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Formalism or formalization is the activity or its product which rigorously follows a set/system of rules previously defined and usually known. It can refer to a set of beliefs in philosophy, art, l...
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In art theory, formalism is the concept that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its form--the way it is made, its purely visual aspects, and its medium. Formalism emphasizes compositi...
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Russian formalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Vik...
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Formalism has been a Twentieth century approach that evolved with abstraction and nonobjective art. Styles such as Post-painterly Abstraction, color Field, and Minimalism were based on formalist theories.
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Formalism in the broadest sense refers to a type of criticism that emphasizes the "form" of a text rather than its content. Formalist critics also tend to eschew discussion of any elements deemed external to the text itself (history, politics, biography).
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Russian Formalists considered literature to be a special use of language. As such it was amenable to analysis in and of itself. Peter Steiner considers Russian Formalism to fall into three periods:
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NTL, I have to say a few words about Russian Formalism of the 20s; the stress on forms and insistence that meaning is changing with the changes of forms. In short, as I said: form = message (Hello, Mr. Aristotle, and Structure = Texture).
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