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Author Strätling, Susanne, author.

Title The hand at work : the poetics of poiesis in the Russian avant-garde / Susanne Strätling ; translated by Alexandra Berlina
Published Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 325 pages) : illustrations
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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Translation of: Die Hand am Werk : Poetik der Poiesis in der russischen Avantgarde
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the German
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 23, 2022)
Subject Experimental poetry, Russian -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature, Experimental -- Russia -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature, Experimental -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union
Gesture in literature.
Gesture in art.
Hand in literature.
Hand in art.
Arts, Russian -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Arts, Russian
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Experimental poetry, Russian
Gesture in art
Gesture in literature
Hand in art
Hand in literature
Literature, Experimental
Avantgardeliteratur
Avantgarde
Hand Motiv
Experimentelle Literatur
Russia
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Berlina, Alexandra, translator.
LC no. 2021033454
ISBN 1644697092
9781644697085
1644697084
9781644697092
Other Titles Hand am Werk. English (Berlina)