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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
no no, i like the russian formalists, and the prague school that succeeded it (jakobson was a god), i was referring to contemporary formalists like the "new formalists" that insist on writing with meter-- which is nice, and it works when the poet is good, etc, but most people are just eghhhh. i was originally speaking in the context of conceptual art, toko mentioned formalists and i misunderstood what he meant, thinking he was referring to some (unknown to me) formalism derived from duchamp, seeing as how formalism can be a form of platonism (the word has too many meanings and it's confusing), so i asked for a clarification.
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ahh, thanks for the clarification. i suppose it is a silly -ism - potentially meaning a preoccupation with FORM but also a preoccupation with TRADITION.
interesting what you say about platonism. i will have to look that up.