Analysis of Tolstoy’s fiction focuses on the relationship between history and literary form, and the way Tolstoy’s narrative technique, illuminated by Russian Formalist literary theory, enriched his ...
And mathematicians have been debating this stuff for a long time. Most mathematicians nowadays fall under the formalist camp, which says that all of math can be built out of a correct system of ...
and ace formalist and rich-lady walker Alfred H. Barr, MoMA’s first director. According to Hickey’s QAnon–style fever dream, their efforts to establish national standards for art’s place ...