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The hand at work : the poetics of poiesis in the Russian avant-garde / Susanne Strätling ; translated by Alexandra Berlina

Author
Strätling, Susanne
Uniform Title
Hand am Werk. English (Berlina)
Published
Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 325 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Berlina, Alexandra
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Language Note
Translated from the German.
Contents
Speaking. From hand to mouth -- Writing. Letters at play -- Pointing. Theatre between performance and perception -- Working. The word as a tool -- Acting. Poetics of operativity (Sergei Tretyakov) -- Giving. Poetics of life -- Touching. Tactile text experiments -- Toward a philology of the hand.
Summary
"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 modernisms 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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ISBN
1644697092 electronic book
9781644697085 electronic book
1644697084 electronic book
9781644697092 (electronic bk.)
9781644697078 hardcover
Note
Translation of: Die Hand am Werk : Poetik der Poiesis in der russischen Avantgarde.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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