Jestrovic, Silvija (2018) Seeing better : modernist estrangement and its transformations. Social Research : an International Quarterly, 85 (2). pp. 275-299.

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Abstract

This essay looks at the concept of making the familiar strange as an integral part of the historical avant-garde, to understand its workings, legacies, and potential to play out the aesthetics and politics of seeing better for our time. The notion of artistic thinking as thinking from the point of view of estrangement, with its paradigms in European modernism, is a point of departure for reflecting on the relationship between aesthetics and politics—for foregrounding the concept of making the familiar strange both as formulated by Shklovsky and Brecht, respectively, and as it has been reemerging through its various transformations in contemporary artistic practices.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Europe, Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Journal or Publication Title:	Social Research : an International Quarterly
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
ISSN:	1944-768X
Official Date:	8 August 2018
Dates:	Date Event 8 August 2018 Published 11 March 2018 Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit:	11 May 2018
Volume:	85
Number:	2
Page Range:	pp. 275-299
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Publisher Statement:	Copyright © John Hopkins University Press
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Copyright Holders:	The New School
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