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(art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements..
His right eye was black; the left, for some strange reason (alogism), green. Black eyebrows, but (alogism) one higher that the other. In short a foreigner (alogism).
The formal composition in all of these works done in the style of alogism is structured with mathematical precision approaching that of a blueprint.
According to Firtich, the alogism that links Carroll's and Kruchenykh's nonsense is made up of three aspects, of which the linguistic experiment of 'nonsense' is but one. Also linking these figures is the concept of alternative metaphysical realms being explored, and an artistic épatage against the dominant contemporary social and cultural institutions.
The theatricality of logic is, then, at least as effective in such speeches as are the meanderings of many an avant-garde playwright whose comic alogisms tend, sometime, to detract from the gravity of the situation described.
In the puppet show he also found the style of discourse of the puppet-show barker, which breaks into the course of the action, with its tones of ironic publicity and praise, its alogisms and deliberate absurdities.
Mann's division of alogisms into 1 . alogisms as a basis and 2. alogisms as overtone (style), together with his account of the generalising (all-embracing) nature of the grotesque is convincing, and using these theories H. Gunther takes the discussion further.
But many verbal absurdities and alogisms are scattered throughout the book.
The dadaists emphasized that the basis of the creative process stems from alogisms.
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Alogism means (art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements..
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His right eye was black; the left, for some strange reason (alogism), green. Black eyebrows, but (alogism) one higher that the other. In short a foreigner (alogism).
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