You have many questions raised about art and the often unquestioned ideas surrounding it, like originality, authenticity, influence, history, formal value and biography-as-value.
The Beat writers had a shared vision that rejected many of the formal values of the accepted canon, and elevated energy, flow and engagement over reflection, refinement and detachment.
But Guadet's approach became unfashionable, and since the 1960s the predominant methods of teaching architectural theory have ranged from a return to the synthesis of structural, spatial, and formal values espoused by Robert Venturi to the exploration of the architectural implications of general theories of linguistics advanced by Christian Norberg-Schulz.
Compelling, besides being generally incompatible with compatible, suggested to me a standard of formal values more suitable for architectural photography and rendering than for architecture itself.
Ofili knows he lives in a world where you can't just do formal values, so he does them plus identity politics, pop culture and shock, and he puts them all together in a lighthearted way that genuinely connects him to Picasso and Matisse, even if he hasn't yet got up to their level.
In 1965, Susan Sontag wrote that both "Olympia" and "Triumph of the Will" transcended "the categories of propaganda or even reportage," but she changed her mind when, nine years later, her position no longer seemed a daring stand for formal values but a dangerous commonplace, with the two films becoming festival favorites and the director approaching the status of a pop star.
Lifar believed that dance was more important than the music and decor in a ballet, and he held that since ballet technique has its own innate formal values, its choreography should not derive from music.
New formal values of the parameters mentioned are determined.
Though he has in the past been criticised for his outspoken insistence on the formal values of jazz and for the power he wields as head of jazz at New York's prestigious Lincoln Centre a new 8-CD set (Sony Jazz 4976472) shows the talented Mr Marsalis doing what he loves most: playing jazz with his septet before a loud and enthusiastic audience, in this case at New York's Village Vanguard.
But "Westerly Round" could also be enjoyed purely for its formal values.
