I like Shklovsky too. The correct Russian spelling is "otstranenie", which in
this case I would translate as "detachment", "moving aside" or "keep away"
(from).
Boris Shoshensky
-- Michael Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This approaches the Russian Formalists' notion of c. 1916 of "making
strange" from the other direction. By offering the viewer something
that does not readily simulate or evoke or call to mind natural images
or other referents, these paintings seem strange and, at first,
meaningless. The theorists (among them, Shklovsky, Jakobson,
Eichenbaum, and others) developed the concept of 'ostranenie' ("making
strange") in literature, and they asserted that poetry pushed forward
unusual imagery and such devices as rhythms, meter, and rhyme--which
were not commonly evident in ordinary speech--in order to wrench their
subjects from their habituated invisibility or routineness in everyday
experience and, by "making strange" bring them to the awareness of the
listener or reader.
> I've said many times that this state of mind is doubtless
> impossible, given our fetal stage neural development at least, but
> it is a worthy quest for the sake of opening our minds to newness.
> At any moment everything in existence is without any meaning
> whatsoever and at any moment everything in existence has all
> potential meanings. Then we choose and mostly we choose to
> imitate. Except in art where "make-believe" is the most wonderous
> adventure possible.
A good point, insofar as every mental association can be untied from
its original context and connected to another context. Empirical
science is premised on the notion that natural objects follow regular
"laws" or behaviors, which can be reproduced with a specified degree
of exactness and certitude. Words, of course, are far more profligate
and randy, and move around among many "meanings" with almost no qualms
or hesitancy. Words and images, principally, and a few facial and
bodily gestures, are mapped onto experience in a way that reflects the
"meanings" that others agree upon.
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