The purpose of art is to express the essence to your pleasure and sit
back and enjoy.
mando
On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Michael Brady wrote:
On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote:
""The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are
perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to
make objects
'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty
and length
of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic
end in itself
and must be prolonged." (Shklovsky, "Art as Technique")"
Aha, back to the Russian Formalists and our brief mention of them
last August! Ta da!
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Michael Brady
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