Russian Formalism
Russian Formalism
FORMALISM
VICTOR SHKLOVSKYS ART AS
TECHNIQUE (1917)
SYMBOLIST IDEAS
Art is thinking in images. (idea
originated in part by Potebnya)
Without imagery there is no art, and in
particular no poetry. (Potebnya)
Poetry as well as prose, is first and
foremost a special way of thinking and
knowing. (Potebnya)
Kulikovskys Ideas
Poetry is a special way of thinking
thinking in images.
Shklovskys Ideas
Many people believed that thinking in
images was the chief characteristic of poetry.
i.e., history of imagistic art must consist of
a history of changes in images.
Images flow from country to country, nation
to nation, poet to poet without change.
Images belong to one, they are the Lords
DEFAMILIARISATION
Art is a way of
experiencing the
artfulness of an
object : the object is
not important
Ring-a-Ring
o'Rosies
A pocketful of
posies
"Ashes, Ashes"
We all fall down
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