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“On Realism and Art,” Roman Jakobson

Reproduced below, artist Justen Ladda’s superb installation in a public school auditorium in The Bronx in 1981: “The Thing”: Quoted below, an excerpt from the 1921 “On Realism and Art” by Roman Jakobson: …verisimilitude in a verbal expression or in a literary description obviously makes no sense whatever. Can the question be raised about a higher degree [...]
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