"Works of art that achieve 'masterpiece' status share several characteristics: they convey a special type of originality that captures the imagination; they stand the test of time; and, they change the way artists or readers-observers think about their genre or sub-genre." based on/after Goldstein JL (9/20/2018) What makes a piece of Art or Science a 'masterpiece'? Cell 175: 1-5.
Other criteria based upon Modernist and Russian Formalists--especially as they may pertain to poetry [in no particular order at this point]:
Overview: THEME, FORM, PLOT, MOTIF, NARRATORS, CHARACTERIZATION, IMAGERY, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
--interpretive power
--changes the way we look at things
--stands the test of time
--stimulates the imagination
-- form [including, in most cases, strong beginning and ending]/style
----arrangement/visual-textual/title[s]
--technique/devices [especially, Shklovsky's "strangeness,"& "de-famiarization;" also, see Wittengein's "language games"]; "transrational poetry/experiments" [Shklovsky & other Russian Cubo-Futurists]; zaum;[Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh--Russian Cubo-Futurists]
--theory[ies] behind work
--music/rhythm [meter?]
--rhyme
--color
--content/theme/subject [still mulling this one]
--integrity in the sense of part-whole and/or part-part coherence
--image
--intentionality [?]
--"anti-automatism" [?; see Surrealism]
--non-didactic
--non-literal ["literal" usually related to "didactic"]
--beauty [how to define?]
--"psychological transformations" [effects upon motivation, emotions/feelings, sensations, perceptions (e.g., Gestalt effects)], cognition, ideations; effects on unconscious [Surrealism] by way of "defense mechanisms;" effects on "self" [e.g., self-image, self-concept]
--include "spiritual" effects? [what would this mean?]
Other criteria based upon Modernist and Russian Formalists--especially as they may pertain to poetry [in no particular order at this point]:
Overview: THEME, FORM, PLOT, MOTIF, NARRATORS, CHARACTERIZATION, IMAGERY, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
--interpretive power
--changes the way we look at things
--stands the test of time
--stimulates the imagination
-- form [including, in most cases, strong beginning and ending]/style
----arrangement/visual-textual/title[s]
--technique/devices [especially, Shklovsky's "strangeness,"& "de-famiarization;" also, see Wittengein's "language games"]; "transrational poetry/experiments" [Shklovsky & other Russian Cubo-Futurists]; zaum;[Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh--Russian Cubo-Futurists]
--theory[ies] behind work
--music/rhythm [meter?]
--rhyme
--color
--content/theme/subject [still mulling this one]
--integrity in the sense of part-whole and/or part-part coherence
--image
--intentionality [?]
--"anti-automatism" [?; see Surrealism]
--non-didactic
--non-literal ["literal" usually related to "didactic"]
--beauty [how to define?]
--"psychological transformations" [effects upon motivation, emotions/feelings, sensations, perceptions (e.g., Gestalt effects)], cognition, ideations; effects on unconscious [Surrealism] by way of "defense mechanisms;" effects on "self" [e.g., self-image, self-concept]
--include "spiritual" effects? [what would this mean?]
