loi de cristal
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| 4 | shattered crystal analogy |
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| 4 | process/principle of crystallisation |
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| 3 | the crystal image |
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| 3 | the law of the crystal / crystalline law |
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| Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius et al - crystalline architecture |
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shattered crystal analogy Explanation: Refers to Freud's analogy related to the fragmented personality: 'If we throw a crystal to the floor, ' Freud (1933) writes 'it breaks; but not into haphazard pieces. It comes apart along its lines of cleavage into ... (hard to get the entire text online, but you see the picture) |
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the crystal image Explanation: This seems to be to do with the development by Deleuze of Reigl's ideas about ancient Egypt and the coexistence of past and present, origins and developments. See: http://books.google.fr/books?id=nBk6-MtJebgC&pg=PA409&lpg=PA... "The crystal-image, which forms the cornerstone of Deleuze's time-image, is a shot that fuses the pastness of the recorded event with the presentness of its viewing. The crystal-image is the indivisible unity of the virtual image and the actual image. The virtual image is subjective, in the past, and recollected. The virtual image as "pure recollection" exists outside of consciousness, in time. It is always somewhere in the temporal past, but still alive and ready to be "recalled" by an actual image. The actual image is objective, in the present, and perceived. The crystal-image always lives at the limit of an indiscernible actual and virtual image." http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/9903/offscreen_essays/deleuze2.ht... The difficulty is that I cannot find an English reference to "crystal law/theory/hypothesis" or similar. However, they do seem to be about the same concept. |
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the law of the crystal / crystalline law Explanation: As I say, this is unlikely to be a stock phrase - but see my refs for Taut and Gropius and the crystalline -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 40 mins (2009-01-26 16:34:19 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.jstor.org/pss/989612 |
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process/principle of crystallisation Explanation: Agree with BD that there's a Deleuzean 'vibe' here, though I don't think "crystal image" is right here - that's a specific application to cinema of a more general idea of crystallisation. Deleuze's use - and maybe this is the reference here - goes back to Kant's discussion in his Critique of Judgement (§58) of how certain chemical processes produce "free formations" of geometrical beauty in nature, and he calls this process "crystallisation": "The above expression, “free formations” of nature, is, however, here used to denote such as are originally set up in a fluid at rest where the volatilization or separation of some constituent (sometimes merely of caloric) leaves the residue on solidification to assume a definite shape or structure (figure or texture)... The formation, then, takes place by a concursion, i.e., by a sudden solidification—not by a gradual transition from the fluid to the solid state, but, as it were, by a leap. This transition is termed crystallization." The context in Kant is speculation as to the objective bases of beauty in nature - "objective" meaning here "mechanical" rather than "organic". For Deleuze, the crystal is also a symbol of the non-organic and of a form that fuses different orders of being (past/present, liquid/solid etc.) in a sudden leap. You can probably see from both contexts how this notion woud be used to describe the sudden transition in modern art from organic/representative forms to geometrical/abstract forms. "L’art du XXe siècle serait ainsi passé à la loi de cristal, et exprimerait, avec l’abstraction pure, le rapport de l’homme à l’Absolu." |
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Reference comments
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| Reference: Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius et al - crystalline architecture Reference information: Maybe some of these links would assist http://books.google.com/books?id=lXSg6NMDAN0C&pg=PA46&lpg=PA... http://updateslive.blogspot.com/2007/09/wenzel-hablik-projec... http://books.google.com/books?id=9iGYgtykzToC&pg=PA169&lpg=P... |
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