Akshit posted an Question
July 11, 2020 • 01:31 am 10 points
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Do give main information about viktor shklovsky’s essays ‘art as technique’ [1917]

do give main information about Viktor Shklovsky’s essays ‘Art as Technique’ [1917]

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    Viktor Shklovsky promotes mechanical formalism under the umbrella of Russian Formalism. His essay ‘Art as a Technique’ is a seminal work in Russian Formalism. It is largely about the function of art and poetic language in literature. In his essay, Shklovsky attacks Russian symbolism by analyzing the statement of Russian Symbolist, Alexander Potebnya that art means to think in images. Shklovsky argues that art forms like music and architecture do not have images. He says that art is rather a technique that helps recover the sensation of life. Perception becomes habitual in life, which leads to an automatic or mechanical life. Humans develop ‘algebrization’ which is explained as automation of perception. “Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war.” This tendency, he argues, creates the economy of perceptive effort.

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