In his
"Art as Technique," Viktor Schlovsky writes that people's perceptions of things, if
repeated, become automatic and even unconscious. Therefore, it is the artist's duty to return
the beauty, the feeling and the emotion that has been lost. Schlovsky writes of the purpose of
art:
The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of
things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects
"unfamiliar," to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of
perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must
be...
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