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Originally Posted by MG3000
I've been reading a lot of European literature lately, especially about during WWI and post war activities and it always surprises me how much art has sprung from it. obviously it was a big event, but there is some truly underappreciated works of art that stems from it that I think musicians draw from in general. And I think that's cool that music is coming from a more "literate" crowd rather than the self destruction of some of the artists that happen to permiate popular culture in the 80s and 90s. Life eez good.
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well that's interesting you bring that up because at the same time (first half of 20th C) the russian formalists were creating art that was produced in order to consciously avoid any parallels with political/social/economic/whatever context. they believed that art (specifically literature) has a history of itself and therefore references to the context of the period should be limited. an audience should focus themselves on analysing the art itself (ie. the language, in this case).
a difficult theory to put into practise, and is obviously only relevant to a tiny proportion of art produced, as it can be argued that context plays a part (consciously or subconsciously) in all of art that is made, as even the russian formalists were influenced by the context around them, that is, the context of being a member of the russian formalists! so by willfully trying to limit any contextual influence they are actually using the movement to shape and craft their work.