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  • "Formalism" and "realism," once precisely characterized, remain useful jurisprudential categories, whatever the historical verdict on whether 19th-century jurists held Vulgar or Natural Law versions of formalism.

    Legal Theory Blog 2010

  • Formalism, with its fixation on the strangeness of objects and the transformational qualities of the literary "device", was key to early Soviet cinema's aim to revolutionise perception – and both Shklovsky and Brik wrote film scenarios.

    Marx at the movies 2011

  • Too much art today feels too loose and void of intent -- the stuff my wife, Amy, typically refers to as dorm art, and I was afraid that was what I was going to encounter in New Formalism II at 65Grand.

    Paul Klein: Art Strategies Manifested in Exhibits Opening Tonight Paul Klein 2012

  • Too much art today feels too loose and void of intent -- the stuff my wife, Amy, typically refers to as dorm art, and I was afraid that was what I was going to encounter in New Formalism II at 65Grand.

    Paul Klein: Art Strategies Manifested in Exhibits Opening Tonight Paul Klein 2012

  • Too much art today feels too loose and void of intent -- the stuff my wife, Amy, typically refers to as dorm art, and I was afraid that was what I was going to encounter in New Formalism II at 65Grand.

    Paul Klein: Art Strategies Manifested in Exhibits Opening Tonight Paul Klein 2012

  • Too much art today feels too loose and void of intent -- the stuff my wife, Amy, typically refers to as dorm art, and I was afraid that was what I was going to encounter in New Formalism II at 65Grand.

    Paul Klein: Art Strategies Manifested in Exhibits Opening Tonight Paul Klein 2012

  • Krugman wrote a good article a couple of years ago called Two Cheers for Formalism.

    Matthew Yglesias » Focus on the Fundamentals: Income, Not Investments 2009

  • Mr. Rodchenko, a brilliantly innovative photographer when he was young, was accused by the Communist regime of Formalism i.e., not the prescribed Socialist Realism and his career was aborted.

    Inside Look at Work and Modern Mexico 2010

  • One can tell if a blurber gave a close reading to a manuscript -- a give-away against a close reading is if the blurber uses the blurbing opportunity to fight one of the many tedious battles in the poetry world, e.g. something that starts, "If you think New Formalism is dead....." bla bla.

    THOUGHTS WHILE JUDGING POETRY (#3) 2010

  • One can tell if a blurber gave a close reading to a manuscript -- a give-away against a close reading is if the blurber uses the blurbing opportunity to fight one of the many tedious battles in the poetry world, e.g. something that starts, "If you think New Formalism is dead....." bla bla.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

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