Alogism
The Alogismus (Greek irrationality, absurdity) is a modern art movement and an aphoristic style means expressing an illogical situation or consideration is that yourself or the logic contradicts. A well-known rhetorical alogism is the statement "It's colder at night than outside."
The alogism is not to be confused with an oxymoron or a paradox , since these stylistic devices reproduce a concrete context that contains an actual contrast.
literature
In a question (or statement), an alogism can lead to polemics , since the question already leads to an argument that is unrelated to the expected answer or perhaps even discredits the issue . This is not the only reason why alogism can have a provocative effect. However, if used skilfully, this stylistic device can amusingly underline a simple statement due to its absurdity , which is why artists in the entertainment industry like to fall back on it.
As a modern representative of alogism in literature and entertainment, the work "Everything goes from their time" by Piet Klocke can be seen. The author uses here alogisms whose "quality judgment is the complete freedom of meaning".
In the broadest sense, Helge Schneider can also be understood as a representative of alogism. The line to absurdity is blurred here, however, as sentences like “I am an earthworm with teased hair and drink a huge piece of wood!” (From a scene from Texas - Doc Snyder keeps the world in suspense ) very difficultly conforms to a strict artistic attitude assign.
Visual arts
The painter Kasimir Malewitsch , together with other artists, established this term, which is located between Cubism and Dadaism , in the visual arts between 1911 and 1913. In painting, alogism represents the third phase of suprematism . In so-called alogical pictures, the "alogical juxtaposition of numbers, letters, word fragments and mimetically reproduced figures and things are in the foreground". The aim of this art movement is not devoid of a certain self-irony and comedy , since the artist with such a work clearly aims to classify the attempt to depict reality in a picture as useless .
The works of alogical painting include, for example, “Cow and Violin” (1913) or “An Englishman in Moscow” (1914) by Kasimir Malewitsch.
Individual evidence
- ↑ literatur-im-foyer.de ( Memento from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ vnr.de Good style: Give your speech fine-tuning with rhetorical figures (Part 2) by Achim Behn, accessed on March 26, 2009
- ↑ admiralspalast.de via Piet Klocke, accessed on March 26, 2009
- ↑ Hans-Peter Riese, 1999: Monograph Kasimir Malewitsch. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH. Reinbek near Hamburg. rowohlt.de: (PDF; 135 kB) Reading sample, accessed on March 26, 2009
- ↑ art-in.de : Kasimir Malewitsch and the Suprematism (Part 2 / Feb 02), accessed on March 26, 2009