Title: Art, museums and touch /
Authors: Candlin, Fiona
Publisher: Manchester University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Touch in art.; Senses and sensation in art.; Art museums; Art History
Abstract: Challenges the traditions that privilege visual experience, demostrating that touch was, and still is, crucially important to museums and art history while arguing against ideas of touch as an unmediated and uncomplicated mode of learning.
Contents: Introduction : lines of enquiry -- Sensory separation and the founding of art history -- Art history, touch and gender -- Museum visitors and a changing sensory regime -- Curators, connoisseurs and expert object-handling -- Touch and access provision -- Touching modern and contemporary art -- Conclusion : some consequences.