Strätling, Susanne
The Hand at Work

The Poetics of Poiesis in the Russian Avant-Garde. Translated by Alexandra Berlina.

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. XXII,325 Seiten mit 70 Abb., gebunden (Academic Studies Press 2021) leicht bestoßen/somewhat bumped