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International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies

Volume 2, Issue 2, 2022

Artistic formalism in relation to sport and science: Towards the peaceful co-existence of differing “Forms of Life”



Author(s): Dr. Daniel Shorkend

Abstract:

As a point of departure, this article asks the question in what way does artistic formalism relate to both sport and science. Sport in this regard is used to metaphorically allude to science. The underlying premise is that one can link sport and science via the inclusion of the aesthetic and in particular formalist art aesthetics. For example, the point is that science, to a greater or lesser degree, includes formal components whether as participant and/or viewer, just as sport does. It seems clear to me that we should experience and describe a medical operation, for example, as formally attractive, that is, that it exemplifies grace, poise and delicacy. Or that a certain maneuver in a team engaged in scientific effort dazzles and weaves a wondrous pattern before one’s eyes and as experienced as such through “playing” and many scientists go so far as to declare that a certain scientific formulation was simply sublime, that it was aesthetically pleasing or even akin to a sporting spectacle, if only metaphorically.


Keywords: Art, Science, Sport, Formalism, Beauty

Pages: 85-93

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