Die WissensKünste der Avantgarden
Kunst, Wahrnehmungswissenschaft und Medien 1915–1930
[The Arts of Knowledge of the Avantgardes. Art, the Science of Perception, and Media 1915–1930]

Around 1950, Wittgenstein notes: “People today believe that scholars are there to teach them, artist to delight them. It does not occur to them that they have something to teach them.” Sabine Flach approaches the knowledge of the arts as per Wittgenstein’s statement through an analysis of the theories of perception by Kandinsky, Malevich, Matyushin, Richter, and Eggeling. The author develops an interdisciplinary dialogue with media theory and the sciences of perception along the paragon between arts and sciences: What do we know? Where does this knowledge take place, and how does it become describable?
This study writes an epistemology of art that, at the same time, concedes an “abstract turn.”