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by Ben Marcus
(Granta, £12.99)
“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 prolonged,” Soviet literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky once argued.
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