The literariness of media art / Claudia Benthien, Jordis Lau, and Maraike M. Marxsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benthien, Claudia, 1965- author.

Lau, Jordis, author.

Marxsen, Maraike (Maraike M.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and literature.

Multimedia (Art).

Literature in art.

Formalism (Literary analysis).

Physical Description:

x, 320 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of Russian formalism, the term "literariness" was coined. The driving force behind this theoretical inquiry was the desire to identify literature--and art in general--as ways of revitalizing human perception, which had been numbed by the automatization of everyday life. The transformative power of "literariness" is made manifest in many media artworks by renowned artists such as Chantal Akerman, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Nalini Malani, Bruce Nauman, Martha 4 Rosler, and Lawrence Weiner. These artists, much like the young Russian and German scholars of the 20th century, use literariness as a tool to analyze the aesthetics of spoken or written language within experimental film, video performance, moving image installations and many more media-based art forms. This volume uses as its foundation the Russian formalist school of literary theory, with the goal of extending these theories to include contemporary concepts in film and media studies, such as neoformalism, intermediality, remediation, and post-drama"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Literariness and media art: theoretical framing

Voice and script in media art

Literary genres in media art

Works of literature in media art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781138091511

1138091510

9781138091528

1138091529

OCLC:

1008987194