Formalism

The overall meaning to the book, The Bluest Eye, is beauty is such an impact that a person will go to the extreme to fit in. For example, Pecola wants to have blue eyes like Shirley Temple, the most beloved little girl in that time. She believes if she does the following that all her problems will fade away and she’ll be the beautiful girl. “ Pecola wishes that she had blue eyes. She thinks that if her eyes were blue, and therefore beautiful according to white American standards, then her…

In Cedric Price’s “The Invisible Sandwich”, the author explains how design transcends the physical aspects such as materiality and aesthetics and exudes intangible properties. For example, spatial relationships between different floors of a buildings produce unique qualities for each story. Having distilled the building into abstract terms, Price believes that architecture should serve to “extend the value and usefulness of human life” (Price, 12). In other words, a building should function as a…

came to power & by the middle of the 1930s quashed all forms of free-spirited avant-garde aesthetic & Rodchenko fell out of grace with the Communist Party. Rodchenko's paintings and designs were publicly condemned by the authorities for alleged "formalism." Rodchenko then passed to photojournalism. His photographic images illustrated the era of High Stalinism by showing extravagant parades, the definitive change of agriculture. Through his photos, he also showed the huge industrial expansion…

No other ancient civilization is as closely associated with its burial rites as that of Egyptian. Dated as early as 4000 BCE to 30 CE, Egyptian mortuary rituals have evolved over the years, but the perpetual emphasis on the eternal afterlife in the coveted destination that all ancient Egyptians strived to reach: The Field of Reeds, the Egyptian paradise, did not change. Many theories have argued that the ancient Egyptians were obsessed with death, whereas in fact it displayed an obsession with…

Adam Torres had already served nearly ten months in confinement prior to receiving his final sentence, therefore he only had two more months of his prison term remaining after the court had made its decision (Jackman 2016). This perceived injustice sent ripples through the Northern Virginia community. In fact Don Geer, the father of the victim, stated that, “Nothing about this [case] has been done in a timely manner. It’s been a long time for everything to take place” (WTOP Staff, 2016). He…

“The Pure Products of America Go Crazy” is a photo exhibition recently installed at Pratt Institute featuring the works of artists Lucas Blalock, Owen Kydd, and John Lehr. These photographers celebrate, as the name suggest, the pure products of America in their images; they find beauty in banal objects that represent the residue of a pursuit of American living. In doing so, they also emphasize the role that the camera itself, as well as post-production digital tools, have in creating value to…

utilizing phonemic gadget not the phonetic substance. Thusly, utilizing the formalist hypothesis will break down its components with a specific end goal to look its impact in the importance of the content. The piece that will be break down utilizing formalism approach is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. The speaker of the lyric utilize "I" it appears that the speaker is amidst voyage some place in a wood and stands between two streets that he needed to pick. The obvious that demonstrate…

Peter Smithson. Born in the context of the post-World War II, the architectural thinking knew a shift towards a re-evaluation of social concerns with urban responsibility. Brutalism tries to combine new ethical concerns with a certain aesthetic formalism. Indeed, the couple was certain that architecture could address social and cultural problems and solve them with design. However the legacy of the Brutalism in the United Kingdom is now a prominent theme in contemporary architectural debate. The…

Question 2: Formalism Rainbow Series Part Three: An Absolutely Ordinary Formalist Analysis The Text: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow – Les A. Murray The Formalist theory requires readers to adopt a formalist mindset, understanding that the meaning of a text is derivative from its form; the two unable to be separated from each other. In the poem, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow the form is constructed in stanzas and is analysed through its literary features which include style, rhyme, repetition…

Russian Formalism It is uncommon that a character in a story tells the reader that he cannot be trusted. This is the case in Despair by Vladimir Nabokov. Herman´s unreliable character is a reflection of Nabokov's writing through his characterization. His frequent unordinary portrayal of characters causes his work to stand out. Herman informs the reader in the beginning of the novel that the majority of what he says is not true. ¨...that bit about my mother was a deliberate lie...I could, of…