Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

destrucción de la forma

English translation:

destruction of form

Added to glossary by Timothy Barton
Jul 23, 2005 14:57
18 yrs ago
Spanish term

La destrucción de la forma

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List of parts to a university module in "Postmodernidad: controversías y transformación de un período inacabado".

I've played around with all sorts of ideas with the words "shape" and "form" on Google, and the most likely option looks to be "The destruction of the form", but I'm not convinced. Can anyone confirm this or give another translation?

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Spanish term (edited): La destrucci�n de la forma
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the destruction of form

Studyarea.com's Free Essay Site - "Timeline of Art "
But this procedure led to actual destruction of form and its reduction to a series
of decorative elements. Negro art and sculpture had a profound effect and ...
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Other Voices 2.2 (March 2002), Victor Grauer "Formless: A Review"
... very common, type of "postmodern" discourse on the arts. ... destruction of
difference, the work here of the matrix figure, is the destruction of form. ...
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William V. Spanos
"The Destruction of Form in Postmodern American Poetry: The Example of Charles
Olson and Robert Creeley," Amerikastudien, vol. 25 (Winter 1980), 375-404. ...
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Building a Contemporary Glass Collection at the Kunstmuseum ...
... of early studio glass already are there: mainly the destruction of form, ...
piece stylized according to postmodern taste by Keith Brocklehurst in 1990. ...
www.sunderland.ac.uk/~as0dkl/ricke.htm - 42k - Cached - Similar pages

[PDF] The Symbolism and Iconography of Noise in Digital Media
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Noise is almost always a by-product of the destruction of form and structure.
When an object. is blown to smitherines, it moves from structure to noise and ...
e3motion.com/noise/noise7N.pdf - Similar pages

Peer comment(s):

agree JaneTranslates : Yes, without the article before "form"
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agree Margarita Gonzalez : Yes, that's it. And with no article.
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agree Henry Hinds : Sure, that's the secret.
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agree MPGS : :)
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agree Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X) : yes..with no the..
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agree Susana Betti
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agree Muriel Vasconcellos
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agree Michele Fauble
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks guys. The article was a typing mistake."
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Spanish term (edited): La destrucci�n de la forma

deconstruction

Derrida is a contemporary French philosopher who inaugurated the school of deconstruction. Deconstructionism, a body of ideas closely associated with post-structuralism and post-modernism, is a strategy of analysis that has been applied primarily to linguistics, literature, and philosophy. Derrida published three major works in 1967 which introduced his radical approach to texts: Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology, and Writing and Difference. His greatest influence has been in philosophy and literary criticism in the United States where the above works were translated and published in the 1970's.
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agree María Teresa Taylor Oliver : I believe this is the right term in the context of post-modernism...
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Thanks, Maria!
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Spanish term (edited): La destrucci�n de la forma

destruction of mores

"mores", according to Webster's Dictionary is a habits, norms, and customs, which may be more applicable in this context than shape or form
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