Author : Susanne Strätling
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644697092
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Book Synopsis The Hand at Work by : Susanne Strätling
Download or read book The Hand at Work written by Susanne Strätling and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.