A brief but influential 20th-century critical method that originated in St. Petersburg through the group OPOYAZ, and in Moscow via the Moscow Linguistic Circle. Important Formalists included Roman Jak [..]

1840, "strict adherence to prescribed forms," from formal + -ism. Used over the years in philosophy, theology, literature, and art in various senses suggesting detachment of form from conten [..]

Formalism is the study of art based solely on an analysis of its form – the way it is made and what it looks like

An artistic and critical sensibility in American and British literature and criticism which reached its greatest influence between 1930 and 1950, and which promoted a view of art as ‘objective’ - that [..]

the name that has been given to the study of the outward form of works of art and literature that is opposed to their content or meaning.

The tendency to elevate the formal aspects above the expressive value in music, as in Neoclassical music.

Formalism refers to various different approaches to knowledge production, all of them focusing on form rather thn content, function or structure.

(n) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented(n) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but t [..]

Over-emphasis on Form as against the Content or meaning of something, especially in politics or in the theory of Art, Mathematics and Ethics. In Mathematics, Formalism is associated with David Hilbert [..]

Art, and critical writing about art, which place the emphasis on the analysis of form and the use of formal elements rather than on content. Formalist critics tend to put greater significance on the o [..]

Formalism is the analysis and writing of artistic form and the use of formal elements rather than content.

A word that art critics appear to love using. It denotes the rigid observance of established rules, traditions or methods in the arts.

strict observance of the established rules, traditions and methods employed in the arts. Formalism can also refer to the theory of art that relies heavily on the organization of forms in a work rather than on the content. Genre painting

Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc. (computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory. (literature) An approach to interpretation and/or ev [..]