Who was in the GRAV group?
"The strangely tortuous procedures that artists had to take to express their subjectivity" alludes to what I was saying about true formalism being a negative, practiced mainly by bores and pedants. I realize there are traditions of French and Russian formalism with critical underpinings, but in the States the term invokes art about the mechanics of art practiced by deluded, literal-minded interpreters of late Greenberg. I would call the French work discussed in that article "socio-linguistic abstraction" or something to that effect.
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"The strangely tortuous procedures that artists had to take to express their subjectivity" alludes to what I was saying about true formalism being a negative, practiced mainly by bores and pedants. I realize there are traditions of French and Russian formalism with critical underpinings, but in the States the term invokes art about the mechanics of art practiced by deluded, literal-minded interpreters of late Greenberg. I would call the French work discussed in that article "socio-linguistic abstraction" or something to that effect.
- tom moody 10-13-2005 9:20 pm