The shifting, the transformation, of the relationship between individual artistic components became the central issue in Formalist investigations. [...] It was the Formalist research which clearly demonstrated that shifting and change are not only historical statements (first there was A, and then A1 arose in place of A) but that shift is also a directly [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the dominant’
A Summary of Everything I’ve Written at Big Other
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Roman Jakobson, Russian Formalism, the dominant on August 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The 1970s vs. the 2000s (in Hollywood film, at least)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1970s cinema, 2000s cinema, David Bordwell, Hollywood, Kristin Thompson, Paul Kincaid, Pauline Kael, Peter Biskind, Roger Ebert, Roman Jakobson, the dominant, The New Hollywood on October 24, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Paul’s post “Science in the Ghetto” got me thinking about the infantilizing of Hollywood movies. I wanted to see if reality matches my impression (which is that Hollywood films these days are less oriented toward adult audiences), so I gathered the lists of the top-ten grossing English-language films for each year of the 1970s and [...]
Alternative Values in Small-Press Culture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Greg Gerke, J. A. Tyler, the dominant, Walking" on May 19, 2010 | 70 Comments »
This follows J. A.’s post here, which sprang out of conversation here; it’s also motivated by Greg’s recent post about Rilke. In all three places, I’ve been criticizing some “dominant values” in US culture and small-press culture: There’s nothing inherently wrong with celebrity. There’s nothing inherently wrong with youth. There’s not even anything necessarily wrong [...]
Art as Experience
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Allan Kaprow, Arnold Schoenberg, Art Institute of Chicago, atonal music, conceptual art, Dar Williams, Elvis Presley, Happenings, Jackson Pollock, James Franco, John Cage, John Dewey, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Meet Joe Black, Out One, performance art, Roger Ebert, Space Invaders, the dominant, Video Games, Yves Klein on April 28, 2010 | 18 Comments »
In the comments section of my last post, Can Video Games Be Art?, I sketched out a definition of art as experience, or even as an attitude, rather than as a thing or a collection of things (see here and here). At the risk of repeating myself, I’d like expound on that position, in case [...]
What Is Experimental Art?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alec Empire, Arnold Schönberg, avant-garde, Diego Velázquez, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, experimental art, Frank Kermode, Ghost in the Shell, Harry Potter, Henri de Saint-Simon, Impressionism, innovation, J.K. Rowling, James Peterson, John Cage, La Monte Young, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Matei Călinescu, Minimalism, Olinde Rodrigues, outsider art, Philip Glass, Roman Jakobson, Salon des Refusés, serialist music, Stan Brakhage, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, the dominant, The Matrix, Titian, Wachowski on March 12, 2010 | 10 Comments »
One typically hears unusual art called three different things, often interchangeably: Innovative Avant-Garde Experimental But what do these three words mean? Do they mean the same thing? I don’t think so, and in this post I’ll point out some basic differences between them. I’ll also define what I think experimental art essentially is, and how [...]
The Dominant and the Longue Durée
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annales School, Ben Marcus, Bob Perelman, Brian McHale, Brom, Dick Tracy, fantasy, Fernand Braudel, Frank Frazetta, Jen Bervin, Ken Edwards, Language poetry, longue durée, Modernism, opera, parataxis, postmodernism, Roman Jakobson, Romanticism, Ron Silliman, Shakespeare, Shrek, sonnet, Stephen Moore, the dominant, The Lord of the Rings, The New Sentence, Ulysses, Wordsworth, Yury Tynyanov, Yvor Winters on March 6, 2010 | 23 Comments »
It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although maybe it wasn’t replaced until 1901; it must have taken a while back then, in those days before cellular phones and email, to “get the memo,” as we say today. How long did it really [...]
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