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| | Formalism (art) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This led Greenberg to the conclusion that abstraction was the purest art of all. | | | Color-field painting, cubism, conceptual art, hard-edge painting, minimalism and op art all are derived from or close cousins of formalism. | | | Defining a work of art by its 'art form', or medium, limits a work's artistic possibilities to the nature of that medium. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_(art)
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| | "Art" by Clive Bell |
| | As works of art, the Futurist pictures are negligible; but they are not to be judged as works of art. | | | I do not suggest for one moment that their appreciation of art is a thing to be ashamed of; the majority of the charming and intelligent people with whom I am acquainted appreciate visual art impurely; and, by the way, the appreciation of almost all great writers has been impure. | | | A good work of visual art carries a person who is capable of appreciating it out of life into ecstasy: to use art as a means to the emotions of life is to use a telescope of reading the news. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361r13.html
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| | Michael Sprinker: "From Prague to Paris: Formalism as a Method in Literary Study" |
| | Arts differ first in their materials of imitation, color and shape in the visual arts, rhythm, speech, and harmony in the auditory or performing arts (1447a. | | | What art makes us see, and therefore gives us to in the form of "seeing" "perceiving" and "feeling" (which is not the form of knowing), is the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and to which it alludes. | | | By describing their characteristic realization in particular arts, Aristotle is able to differentiate among them, and ultimately to establish the definition of tragedy as an art form, his principal objective in the treatise. |
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http://eserver.org/clogic/3-1&2/sprinker.html
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| | Chartres Tympana |
| | Formalism, the study of the structural elements in a composition of art, was championed by Roger Fry (1866-1934). | | | In addition, most of the masters of the liberal arts, depicted with their respective liberal art on the archivolts, are identical to the ones that Thierry of Chartres' chose for his Heptateuchon. | | | The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. |
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http://www.students.sbc.edu/jackson05/TympanumHome.htm
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| | Yve-Alain Bois - Whose formalism? |
| | Above all it is rigid with the exaltation of art. | | | Indeed, for all his talk about the medium as what defines the specificity of each art, Greenberg never seems to have thought about the issue when confronted with a work of art (his indifference to the actual stuff of which any work of art is made grew over the years). | | | It believes in art the way artists are supposed to--to the point where the cult of art becomes a new Philistinism. |
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http://www.egs.edu/faculty/bois/bois-whose-formalism.html
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| | Lecture Notes: Week Seven: Formalism |
| | Formalism is sometimes characterized as synonymous with "modernism" in art. | | | Bell was writing in an era when the artworld was exploring "abstract" art, rejected by many in the viewing public as not really art. | | | Questions 3 and 4: Bell is an "essentialist." The essence of art, for Bell, is the "aesthetic emotion" provoked by the "significant form" of all art. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361/361_n7.html
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| | Russian Formalism |
| | The work of art is not the result of an addition of elements but of factors which, while organizing the material into a whole, are constituents of the structure of the work of art (Aesthetic Grounds). | | | Hence, Shklovskii's emphasis on the opposition between "poetic" and "prosaic" language ("Art as Technique") and the choice of the former as the essential property of verbal art. | | | Density [faktura] is the principle characteristic of this peculiar world of deliberately constructed objects, the totality of which we call art. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~petrov/formalism.html
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| | Russian Formalism |
| | But his well-known maxim that "art is thinking in images" (an idea, it should be noted, that was promoted earlier by mid-nineteenth-century literary critics Vissarion Belinskii and Nikolai Chernyshevskii) made him an object of derision in Formalist writings. | | | Russian Formalism, a movement of literary criticism and interpretation, emerged in Russia during the second decade of the twentieth century and remained active until about 1930. | | | Above all, it was "literariness," rather than either image or referent, that the Formalists pursued in their studies of poetry and prose. |
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http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/russian_formalism.html
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| | Artblog.net - for your consideration |
| | The art of painting survives on its ontology, the summation of the physical acts which bring it into being as a visual object and as a work of art. | | | Visual art that 'rejects' the visual makes about as much sense as audible art (music) that 'rejects' the audible. | | | The term is most closely associated not with a movement in the visual arts but with a literary movement in early twentieth-century Russia, and if one attempts to trace its application to the visual arts the record is elusive. |
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http://www.artblog.net/index.php?name=2005-09-09-09-46-consider
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| | The Culture of Modernism |
| | Some recent art work really consists in a meta-language which is about the transgressions of art into non-art, and vice-versa. | | | Tomkins 1988:141ff), at the time of his art studies, it was simply unimaginable to make a painting which was not abstract. | | | According to Greenberg, the modernist work of art was essentially a critical discourse applying to earlier works of art, and its methods required it to avoid dependence upon any order of experience not given in the most essentially construed nature of its medium (quoted in Rorimer 1989:129). |
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http://www.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/sonesson/cult_mod_1.html
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| | Representation and expression are irrelevant to work of art as art | | | Because formalism is concerned with art's autonomy, formalism rejects importance of representation in art | | | Because art imitates (reps) life, it is answerable to it: |
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http://www.cofc.edu/hettinger/Aesthetics_Fall_04/Fisher_ch_10_formalism.htm
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| | Untitled |
| | Be able to discuss several definitions of art and to apply them to various works of art from music, drama, poetry, literature, and the visual arts. | | | Be able to formulate your own "definition" of art and to apply it to several works of art. | | | Definition of Formalism: art as the sum total of the whole and the relationship of its parts |
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http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/courseportfolios/2310/handouts/art.html
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| | Clive Bell's Formalism |
| | The theory draws attention to the importance of form in works of art. | | | To appreciate a work of art all one needs is a sense of form and color and space (122) | | | If "descriptive pictures" do not move one aesthetically, "they are not works of art" (120) |
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http://puffin.creighton.edu/eselk/Aesthetics-WebSite-p2000/Aesth_outlines/Formalism_Bell_p2002.htm
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| | LESSON SEVEN: SHOULD ART BE FOR ART'S SAKE? |
| | They believe that art is valuable in itself, that is, art for art's sake. | | | This stuff of "art for art's sake" is an absurdity and its defenders have always gotten on my nerves. | | | We repudiate so-called easel painting and every kind of art favored by ultra-intellectual circles, because it is aristocratic, and we praise monumental art in all its forms, because it is public property. |
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http://mati.eas.asu.edu:8421/ChicanArte/html_pages/Protest.L7.html
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| | Article Comparison: Cezanne - Formalism and Psychoanalysis |
| | The complementary nature of these two articles reveals that criticism of Cezanne's art cannot and, I believe, should not be limited by critical schools of thought. | | | This is, of course, only natural, and has been common practice in nearly all modern art criticism. | | | Written and © Nancy Thuleen in 1997 for Art History 452 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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http://www.nthuleen.com/papers/452cezanne.html
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| | JS Online: Artist to speak Wednesday on formalism, politics |
| | Sanchez, a painter, photographer and printmaker, is a professor of art at Hunter College in New York. | | | Sanchez will be visiting artist in residence at UWM's print studios, in Art Room 302, from 8 a.m. | | | The artist-in-residence program was initiated through Print Forum and the Milwaukee Art Museum, with support from the visual arts printmaking area of UWM's Peck School of the Arts. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/apr03/131966.asp?format=print
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| | Rhizome.org: The New Media Art Resource |
| | art that uses open source tech is practicing politics differently than work dependent on licensed software/hardware. | | | You (curt) have, for example, criticized the fetishization of certain tendencies in digital art - games, etc. while i don't care to speak for the writers of the essay, i take their attack on techno-formalism as an attack on the prioritization of wiz-bang technology that lends itself to consumer product promotion (i.e. | | | > > Perhaps alter-neo-liberal hacktivist art is indeed more > interesting/disturbing/effective/of-the-people than mere neo-liberal > hacktivist art -- in the same way that a Toyota is faster than a Yugo. |
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http://rhizome.org/print.rhiz?30098
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| | Asymptote: December 2004 |
| | This opened things up considerably with minimalism, conceptual art, and earthworks contributing to the options for young artists and grist for the critics. | | | The art world was very limited in scope and it was very entrenched. | | | I read Artforum and I certainly was around a lot of those discussions [about minimal and conceptual art, earthworks, formalism, art and politics, etc.] Some of it related to me. The Greenbergian battle was interesting, but I didn't feel directly connected to it. |
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http://quigley.blogs.com/asymptote/2004/12
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| | Bowling |
| | Formalism, then, is a most Russian phenomena, as some recent exhibitions (notably the Guggenheim's Art of the Avant Garde in Russia and the Tate Gallery's Towards a New Art) have noted. | | | For most people interested in art, the difficulty with Formalism is that it spells authority, that formalism is not just simply Authoritative (like all good art happens to be) but that it is restrictive, pressing and bleak. | | | From their inceptions, movements like Dada, Surrealism (for which we must be eternally grateful since most of the actual painting is so unspeakably bad) and on through to Pop art, Minimal and Conceptual art have sustained themselves not on painting nor on sculpture; their focus is sociological. |
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http://www.msu.edu/course/ha/121/bowling.html
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| | Introduction to Fine Art-Study Guide, Introduction |
| | The Academy was the first school of art and had great influence in the art world when it was established. | | | Words such as "primitive" have unfairly characterized some excellent art as a stage of development toward Western art (as if it were the ultimate goal). | | | -Western art has unfairly categorized outside art using "social Darwinism" to elevate the art of the West and taint the work of other cultures. |
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http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/f00/art105-i.html
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| | Thought For The Day |
| | At its heart was the notion of the autonomy of art, with its corollary that the intrinsic nature of each medium would determine that medium's direction of development. | | | Making your art strange would just be your way to get art into kilter with the estrangement of daily reality itself. | | | Formalism in the west often contains, at least by metaphorical implication, some rumbling threat or revolutionary promise related to the real world: think of the film Koyanasquaatsi, which uses formalist music (the repetitions of Glass) and film technique to show a 'life in turmoil'. |
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http://www.imomus.com/thought300501.html
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| | BioMX and Formalism |
| | The object is merely a pretext for art. | | | He takes from the visual arts and recreates visually on the stage through his sets, and then looks at the impact of that sort of thinking on the body of the actor, the quality of the music, the relationship between the actor and the audience." | | | In a way art is a perspective on things, a way to see things. |
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http://filmplus.org/biomx/formalism.html
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| | Ira Sadoff: "Neo-Formalism: A Dangerous Nostalgia" |
| | American poets' "flat democratic voices" haven't killed poetry, as Richman suggests: poets are victims of a culture that considers art as a commodity, when it considers art at all. | | | No formal program will advance the art or the place of art in culture: an attentive, precise, and open consciousness is required. | | | The dissociation of sound, sense, and intellect, then, reminds us of the danger of art in fin de siecle, the danger of appreciating esthetic beauty, formally and thematically, at the cost of the observed, sensory, disturbingly contingent world. |
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http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sadoff.html
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| | Voice, Story, Vision |
| | Thus, by focusing on formal elements we can often understand both how a work of art is a unique object—something valuable in and of itself—as well as how it is a crafted artifact of its culture, one that adheres to or works against standard values and principles. | | | That is, the formal elements in a work of art all mean something, in relation to one another and to us. | | | Just as what we mean by a “work of art” can vary greatly—a poem or painting, a classic symphony, a pre-Colombian vase—so, too, can what we mean by “form” or “formal elements” vary. |
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http://core-relations.uchicago.edu/VolumeIIpages/voiceintro.html
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| | Formalism (art) - definition of Formalism (art) in Encyclopedia |
| | Formalism in art theory is the belief that aesthetic values can stand alone and that judgements of art can be detached from other considerations such as ethical or social ones. | | | Formalism (art) - definition of Formalism (art) in Encyclopedia | | | Precedence is given to the purely formal or abstract qualities of the work; that is, for example, those visual elements that give it form: its shape, composition, colour or structure. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Formalism_(art)
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| | ARTicles: NU-E -- Platform formalism |
| | This is the idea of an art practice based on context and relations, as described by numerous critics and theoreticians over the last decade. | | | It is common knowledge in the art world that a majority of contemporary art institutions run programmes that they really cannot afford — in the sense that they apparently cannot afford to treat artists with respect when it comes to reasonable honorariums or even per diems. | | | It seems as though the idea of the platform is often inscribed into the overall concept (of the artwork or the exhibition) as a way of securing and underlining a certain humble approach to the idea of producing an artwork or of organizing an exhibition. |
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http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000873.php
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| | Alaiyo Bradshaw-PWAI/September |
| | Various depictions of the oldest art will be viewed. | | | You are expected to read the appropriate chapters from Art: A Brief History, A Short Guide to Writing About Art as well as the assigned handouts. | | | Read: Art: A Brief History, (The Art of Mesopotamia and Egypt pp. |
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http://cepa.newschool.edu/~bradshaa/PWA1/pwasept.htm
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| | Cute formalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In an essay written in Japan in 2001, Currie described how formalism in the Modernist West had always been austere, macho, serious, one of the "high arts", but that a new variety of "cute formalism" was developing in Postmodern Japan. | | | Cute formalism is a term coined by musician and blogger Nick Currie, aka Momus. | | | This is a highly controversial subject because the key assumption is that Japan is a post-modern nation-state. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_formalism
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| | This contemplative mode is familiar from abstract art, which aimed at an ultimate progress of art by reducing its visible form. | | | This intonated introduction was a reminder to keep in mind that media art can be discussed, not only in relation to the histories of art, technology and scientific thought, but to the very incoherent past of juggling, collecting, craftsmanship, and leisure. | | | However, content free media art is not more responsible or conservative than any other content free art - or criticism. |
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http://www.ljudmila.org/nettime/zkp4/09.htm
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| | Functions of Art Outline |
| | Everything that surrounds or relates to the work of art and our understanding of it is relevant. | | | Values art for its aesthetic qualities alone - how it looks is more important than subject matter or context. | | | Offers many ways of looking at and giving meaning to art. |
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http://www.uwgb.edu/malloyk/lecture_2.htm
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| | Phil. 1700 Study Questions for Exam 2 |
| | Formulate and explain two or three objections to his theory of art. | | | Clive Bell's Theory of art: excerpts from Bell, Art (ROA, pp. | | | Assuming that Aristotle's account of tragedy is in part intended to answer Plato's critique of the arts, explain how it would answer that critique, paying special attention to the value of arousing emotions. |
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http://spot.colorado.edu/~jafisher/1700s03/1700StQ2s03.htm
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| | Style: Supplement to a bibliography of Russian formalism in English |
| | "Roman Jakobson: The Unity of his Thought on Verbal Art." Pomorska et al., eds. | | | FindArticles > Arts and Entertainment > Style > Winter, 1995 > Article | | | 1 of Theory of Prose: "Art as Device." |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_n4_v29/ai_18348510
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| | Issues of Modern Art |
| | How it affects artist and how art affects media | | | • Presence of institutions shapes the dialogue of art | | | • Devalues original pieces of art in a sense |
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http://www.msu.edu/course/ha/452/issuesofmodernism.htm
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| | IDST 2310: Fine and Applied Arts in Civilization |
| | In this unit, we will question the term Realism, a term that applies to art which attempts to produce reality as it truly is or seems by definition, and compare it to Idealism, in which the world is represented as it ought to or is thought to be. | | | The course will develop the student's understanding of the role of the arts and of the artist in past and present societies. | | | This unit will explore the manner that a work of art or architecture can be understood in terms of its ability to carry out the function for which it was designed and the elements of its design that serve or do not serve that function |
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http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~cfleck/IDST2310syl.htm
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| | Definition of formalism - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | 2 : marked attention to arrangement, style, or artistic means (as in art or literature) usually with corresponding de-emphasis of content | | | 1 : the practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to prescribed or external forms (as in religion or art); also : an instance of this | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "formalism" |
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=formalism
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| | Hunter and Jacobus's Modern Art |
| | This book covers painting, sculpture, and architecture within the last 100 years. | | | Since the focus of this book is limited to 750 important works, it offers full discussions of major figures and movements. | | | It begins with Impressionism and continues right through to the present, discussing such movements as Realism, Formalism, Expressionism, and Fantasy. |
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http://www.dickblick.com/zz701/02
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| | Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2004044957 |
| | Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Modernism (Art)Formalism (Art)New York school of art, Gender identity in art | | | Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy053/2004044957.html
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| | Formalism |
| | Trevor Pateman's Selected Works Topics in philosophical aesthetics including imagination, formalism, beauty and Rothko. | | | The word formalism has several meanings: # A certain school in the philosophy of mathematics, stressing axiom atic proofs through theorem s specifically associated with David Hilbert. | | | SyncCharts Graphical formalism (name of model, a syncChart is an instance) dedicated to reactive system modeling. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Formalism.html
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| | Find in a Library: Framing formalism : Riegl's work |
| | Find in a Library: Framing formalism : Riegl's work | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/1f21274e4538c067a19afeb4da09e526.html
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