Subjectivity and Objectivity in High and Historical Formalism

High formalism (often identified with the criticism of modern arts) can be defined by the reification of pure formality, the promotion of close looking, and the decontextualization of "the object," its disaggregation from the archaeological and architectural assemblages in which all artifa...

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Published in:Representations (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2008-11, Vol.104 (1), p.8-22
Main Author: Davis, Whitney
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African art
Archaeology
Art history
Colors
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Formalism
Formalist art
Historical analysis
Material culture
Modernist art
Morphology
Objectivity
Optics
Reification
Representational art
Subjectivity
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