Ostranenie

“What we call art exists in order to give back the sensation of life, in order to make us feel things, in order to make a stone stony. The goal of art is to create the sensation of seeing, and not merely recognising, things; the method of art is ‘ostranenie’ [making strange].”

Viktor Shklovsky, “Art as Device” (1917)

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