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Re: OT: Duchamp (fi: Musical languistics)

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Friday, June 6, 2003, 14:50
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From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>

> > In wry, subversive way, calling found objects "art" is way of > > _otstraneniye_ - a Russian word and Formalist term - roughly meaning > > "to make the familiar strange." > > Yes. That's the same as German "Verfremdung" (Dutch "vervreemding"). See
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> Brecht's "Verfremdungseffekt".
"Defamiliarization" in critical parlance in English. "To defamiliarize," etc. Sally Caves scaves@frontiernet.net Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo. "My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

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