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The Hand at Work: The Poetics of Poiesis in the Russian Avant-Garde

The Hand at Work: The Poetics of Poiesis in the Russian Avant-Garde

Strätling, Susanne

Hardcover

Literary CriticismRussian & Former Soviet Union Art

ISBN10: 1644697076
ISBN13: 9781644697078
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Dec 14 2021
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Art = New Vision. This formula shaped the avant-garde. With moving images abruptly expanding the boundaries of the visible world, new printing techniques triggering a pictorial turn in graphic art, and literature becoming almost inseparable from visual media, we still regard the avant-garde as heyday for modernism's obsession with the eye. But what are the blind spots of this optocentrism? Focusing on the gestures of giving, touching, showing, and handcrafting, this study examines key scenes of tactile interaction between subject and artifact. Hand movements, manual maneuvers and manipulations challenge optics and expose the crises of a visually dominated perspective on the arts. The readings of this book call for a revision of an optically obscured aesthetics and poetics to include haptic experience as an often overlooked but pivotal part of the making, as well as the perception, of literature and the arts.

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