tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post602788305214094459..comments2023-12-16T02:44:20.427-06:00Comments on Reginald Shepherd's Blog: A Few Thoughts About Formalism and MarxismReginald Shepherdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post-52756555020846634002007-07-24T17:35:00.000-06:002007-07-24T17:35:00.000-06:00I like very much when you register that art's rela...I like very much when you register that art's relation to social forces is "is determined by its own development <I>as art</I> [my emphasis] and by the changing relationship of the activities and objects designated 'art'"...This distinction is not sometimes made in progressive scholarly discussions of some art's supposedly resistant properties and social functions. The art's formal experience is sometimes elided or under-read. At every point in our embrace of art's social experience, the actual materials of making (like the organization of rhetoric and lines in a poem) should be engaged. I also like your emphasis on the dialogue between those "two realms of forces"...<BR/><BR/>As ever, an enlightening post!Jonathan David Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10608993872673053839noreply@blogger.com