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[art] In art history, formalism is the study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style—the way objects are made and their purely visual aspects. In painting formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color, line, shape and texture rather than iconography or the historical and social context. At its extreme, formalism in ar...
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[literature] Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence. Formalism rejects (or sometimes simply `brackets,` i.e., ignores for the purpose of analysis) notions of culture or socie...
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[mathematics] In foundations of mathematics, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic, formalism is a theory that holds that statements of mathematics and logic can be thought of as statements about the consequences of certain string manipulation rules. For example, Euclidean geometry can be seen as a game whose play consists in m...
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[music] In music theory and especially in the branch of study called the aesthetics of music, formalism is the concept that a composition`s meaning is entirely determined by its form. ==Aesthetic theory== Leonard B. Meyer, in Emotion and Meaning in Music (1956), distinguished `formalists` from what he called `expressionists`: `...formalists...
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[philosophy] The term formalism describes an emphasis on form over content or meaning in the arts, literature, or philosophy. A practitioner of formalism is called a formalist. A formalist, with respect to some discipline, holds that there is no transcendent meaning to that discipline other than the literal content created by a practitioner...
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• (n.) The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
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The artistic genre, and works within this movement, that center on form rather than content. The meaning of such films are derived not form the subject matter but the way in which the elements of the film are structured. Very few pure films of `formalism` exist in and of themselves. Theoretically formalism broaches the concepts of reproducing reali...
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20th-century Russian school of literary criticism. It began in two groups: Opoyaz, an acronym for Russian words meaning Society for the Study of ... [3 related articles]
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(from the article `aesthetics`) ...first, that form is the essence of art and, second, that form must be understood and therefore understandable (i.e., significant). Other ... ...as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel thought, then the abiding problem of art criticism is to restore the art object to concreteness and ... ...academic critici...
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in mathematics, school of thought introduced by the 20th-century German mathematician David Hilbert, which holds that all mathematics can be reduced ... [6 related articles]
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A mathematical school of thought that was headed by the German mathematician David Hilbert. Formalists argue that mathematics must be developed through axiomatic systems. Formalists agree with Platonism on the principles of mathematical proof, but Hilbert's followers don't recognize an external worl...
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noun The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. « Official
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Art, and critical writing about art, which place the emphasis on the analysis of form and the use of formal elements rather than on content. Formalist critics tend to put greater significance on the object instead of the historical context and the sources of patronage.
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means a number of different things:
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n] - the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications 2. [n] - the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented 3. [n] - the practice of scrupulous adherence to...
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a philosophical approach to art that is primarily concerned with the effective organization of the elements of art and principles of design.
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In general, the term formalism describes the critical position that the most important aspect of a work of art is its form, that is, the way it is made and its purely visual aspects, rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world. In painting therefore, a formalist critic would focus exclusively on the qualities of colou...
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noun the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
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(a) In ethics: the term is sometimes used as equivalent to intuitionism in the traditional sense. See Intuitionism. Also used to designate any ethical theory, such as Kant's, in which the basic principles for determining our duties are purely formal. See Ethics, formal. -- W.K.F. (b) In art A form for form's sake, lacking in content. -- L.V.
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strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art. · strong attachment to external forms and observances. · a doctrine that acts are in themselves right or wrong regardless of consequences. · a doctrine, which evolved from a proposal of David Hilbert, that mathematics, including t...
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