Introduction: Aesthetics of the Tool—Technologies, Figures, and Instruments of Literature and Art

Introduction: Knowledge in the Making: Drawing and Writing as Research Techniques

“…The material dimension of literary writing garnered attention in studies on the interaction between writing processes and different writing tools like the pen or typewriter (Stingelin 2004). The recent suggestion of a genuine "aesthetics of the tool" goes a step further, exploring literary texts and artworks both as tools and as dependent on their tools of production (Holland and Strätling 2010). Likewise, art historians have shifted their attention from pure connoisseurship and from the functional analysis of drawings as preliminary studies for more eminent paintings, sculptures or buildings, to the appraisal of the draftsmen's own logic of composing, expressing, and reflecting (e.g.…”