Foundational texts: Art as Technique (Shklovsky, 1917).
Shklovsky’s essays of the 1910s and 1920s sought to disclose some “universal laws” of art, particularly of prose literature. Influenced by the rise of folklore studies, he scanned the world’s literature looking for storytelling techniques that seemed to migrate from place to place and period to period.
About Viktor Shklovsky. Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch and enfant terrible of Formalism, a literary and film scholar, a fiction writer and the protagonist of other people's novels, instructor of an armored division and professor at the Art History Institute, revolutionary and counterrevolutionary. His work was deeply informed by his long and eventful life.
I then began to research into Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky who coined the term 'defamiliarization' in his essay 'Art as Technique'. I felt it would be beneficial to print off the entire essay and analyse certain aspects of the essay itself which directly relates to art and defamiliarization.
In “Art as Technique”, an essay written in 1917, Russian author Viktor Shklovsky argues that the purpose of art is to defamiliarize oneself from a routine based life by making something that is normal seem unfamiliar. He supports his argument with examples from “Shame”, a text from a classic author, Leo Tolstoy, which examines the importance of perspective. Tolstoy analyzes the act of.
In Viktor Shklovsky’s essay “Art as Device” habitual perception is described as a dangerous practice, which renders one insensitive to the experiences of modernity. Importantly, the subjects’ automatized relationship with the surrounding world disrupts their ability to engage with objects. Rather than being experienced through the senses, the object is recognized through an.
Aesthetics of Defamiliarization in Heidegger, Duchamp and Ponge Abstract. named as such by the Russian formalists, in particular Viktor Shklovsky, who coined the term ostranenie in 1917 in his essay “Art as Technique,” and defined defamiliarization as a process of making the familiar and everyday appear strange with the purpose that the work of art is the renewal of perception, the.
Viktor Shklovsky, in full Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, (born January 24 (January 12, Old Style),. and Metod pisatelskogo masterstva (1928; “The Technique of the Writer’s Craft”), Shklovsky argued that literature is a collection of stylistic and formal devices that force the reader to view the world afresh by presenting old ideas or mundane experiences in new, unusual ways. His concept.