Lectures on Formal Analysis by M Twist M Twist

Led by M Twist, the class attempts rhetorical analysies of the Avenue H subway stop in Brooklyn and the new Hudson Yards station in Manhattan.

Introduction features a discussion of writing a rhetorical analysis paper.

Led by M Twist, the class attempts a rhetorical analysis of The New Museum in New York City.

Led by M Twist, the class attempts a rhetorical analysis of the Vignelli New York City subway map.

Led by M Twist, the class attempts a rhetorical analysis of the (new) Whitney Museum of American Art.

Introduction features a short lecture on expression theory.

Led by M Twist, the class attempts a formal analysis of Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach".

Introduction features a discussion of a method of writing a paper that is conducive to thinking in a formally analytic way.

M Twist explains how the expression theory of art is coherent with this theory of formal analysis through the ideas of philosopher R. G. Collingwood.

Lecture delivered on May 2nd, 2014.