These are no mere formalist exercises but polyvalent symbols of time, of chaos ordered, of life's sometimes painful cycles endured. |
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Yet regardless of such formalist elisions, this essay remains enlightening precisely for its heuristic clarity. |
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And for clarity's sake, I should say that the idea has formalist underpinnings, but debating the pros and cons of this is for another time. |
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I mean, it's no skin off my nose if Greenwald and screenwriter Ernest Thompson wanted to go with such a formalist framework. |
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The argument that the black novel anticipates postmodernism can also take a formalist turn. |
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Her textured masses never seem to be simply formalist constructions, even when viewers don't know her history. |
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Bresson developed an austere formalist style that placed him in a pivotal role in the development of modern cinema. |
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Pylades is a legal formalist who cannot see behind or beyond Apollo's words. |
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It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, aubade, and sonnet. |
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The heist sequence circles the formalist Melville back to the place where realism and formalism intersect. |
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He is undoubtedly a humanist, the way he ties his characters together, but he is also a burgeoning formalist, judging by this film. |
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Never exclusively a formalist, this artist is enmeshed in and driven by a complex web of personal and social relationships. |
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In some cases this involves paintings of studio setups that resemble formalist abstractions. |
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He is not a conventional formalist who would reduce painting to its essential qualities. |
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Hence the ultra strict formalist can never be sure that all of maths doesn't collapse. |
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In these paintings, a formalist sensibility seems to have been invaded by cosmic forces. |
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In some way, his pertinence had to be crucial to the question of extreme functionalism in relation to a supposedly formalist modernism. |
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The formalist pieces, they of the universal spiritual titles, are simple flat discs of granite, roughly hewn. |
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Through use of the formalist framework, she implies that the study of Maya art has come of age. |
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Her project enables her to meld an appreciation for handmade domestic crafts with the austere traditions of formalist abstraction. |
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Perhaps his great technical skill, once associated with formalist practice, is now in the service of deep sentiment. |
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He has been producing compositions with a formalist vigor recalling that of the abstract expressionists. |
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Without copying formalist details, analogies to traditional houses are created. |
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Scully is not an abstractionist in the formalist sense of the word. |
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In length he prefers the epigrammatic and in form he is an adept formalist, acknowledging his antecedents in the farmer-poets of the past, Frost, Horace and Theognis. |
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They also possess a crisp beauty that invites an immediate retinal response, even if their content steers the viewer away from any purely formalist reading. |
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He proves himself beyond a doubt an extremely gifted formalist who explores his medium in the moment, exploiting all the pleasures it has to offer. |
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All constitute a style invoking that of the Russian formalist Sergei Eisenstein, who believed in using tactical camera maneuvers to make the familiar strange. |
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The show inadvisedly lumps formalist abstractions by Tauba Auerbach, Sarah Crowner and Suzan Frecon into one room. |
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A loyal person may be a poet or a tradesman, a formalist or an eccentric, a prime minister or a humble voter. |
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A formalist and statistical approach to monitoring the transposition of Community law is already seriously inadequate. |
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This no doubt led him to structure his work clearly in a formalist manner, with both concise orchestration stripped of any imagination. |
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Do formalist claims risk undermining the precarious foothold of substantive jurisprudence? |
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Reference has also been made to the global Education for All campaigns and related declarations to revise the formalist view of Early Childhood. |
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The artificial conflict between formalist art with its hermetic integrity and content art with its higher purpose of social change seems to be evoked. |
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The messy signature actually detracts and distracts from a formalist reading of these otherwise pristine works. |
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Fourteen works in various mediums sat quite comfortably beneath this rubric, each straddling the realms of commercial advertising and formalist abstraction. |
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Of the writers under review, she is the only formalist and writes sonnets, villanelles, and sestinas so fluently she can make you forget, say, that you've just read a sonnet. |
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Without the characteristically stifled and knowingly awkward laughter that usually accompanies Beckett's plays in the theatre, his texts can appear denuded, clumsily formalist and tediously inhuman. |
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The dispute between the Breyer and Scalia blocs is, as Mr Denniston writes in his excellent analysis, a conflict between pragmatist and formalist theories of constitutional interpretation. |
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Never an ideologue, she adopted a pluralistic framework, often combining auteurist, formalist, and cultural and historical methodologies. |
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Feminists, like New Historicists, were interested in contextualizing Shakespeare's writings rather than subjecting them to ahistorical formalist analysis. |
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Up to the present, eighteenth century Hassidism is the last spiritual reaction against a too exclusively formalist practice, and, as such, the last historical movement witnessing to spiritual vitality in Judaism. |
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I think the real worth of the recognition given to primitive art is two-fold: the first is formal, formalist, detectable in cubism and some abstract art where we find the reduction of forms of the primitives. |
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Like his formalist colleagues, Malas sublimated and sieved his regime critique through highly aestheticized approach to narrative. |
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In the mid-1960s a number of art historians in Northern Europe and the United States began to argue against an exclusively formalist and positivist reading of the modern avant-garde. |
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In the 1970s, the formalist bias of experimental filmmaking meant that issues of ethnocultural identity were rarely, if ever, the focus of film practice. |
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Through their specific engagement with western formalist concepts and First Nations traditions, Yuxweluptun's works challenge conceptions of modernism and primitivism that inform many of the written histories of art. |
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An early success of the formalist program was Hilbert's formalization of Euclidean geometry, and the related demonstration of the consistency of those axioms. |
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Bergman's use of non-diegetic imagery, a split screen, exposed celluloid, and other formalist techniques famously made this film a landmark of experimental narrative. |
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