Radical formalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Ruiz (Visual Studies, Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York, N.Y., USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 233-240 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2016.1264625 |
| OpenAlex | W4255379461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The question of formalism often gives rise to well-rehearsed notions of political indifference, autonomy, and ahistoricity. Yet what if a radical formalism was deployed––against these normative understandings––as a contextual practice and subversive method of critique? Mobilized into action, “Radical Formalism” proposes that institutionalized understandings of form may be hijacked from within as an alternative strategy of resistance. Examining the work of Charlotte Poseneske as one practitioner of radical formalism, this essay offers ways of considering formalist art objects as carriers of the political. By welcoming contextual readings of form, we move past the superficial and facile readings of the relation between aesthetics and politics, enabling ourselves to understand what form can perform
Art · Literature · Physics · Theoretical physics · Political theory and Gramsci
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |