The Hand at Work - by Susanne Strätling (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>"After the many decades that scholars have spent exploring productivist art, Strätling's book at last provides the first sustained account of productivist literature. Drawing from rich materials in linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism, and media theory, this brilliant book reveals how one constellation of avant-garde writers reconceptualized the capacities of language in the early twentieth century to create a literature that would not just represent reality but actively intervene in and transform it. <i>The Hand at Work</i> is quite simply one of the most important studies to date on the relationship of the new Soviet subject to language."</p><p>--Devin Fore, Princeton University</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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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