Art, history and the senses
Subtitle: 1830 to the present
By: edited by Patrizia Di Bello and Gabriel Koureas.
Contributors: Di Bello, Patrizia.; Koureas, Gabriel.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780754668633
Subjects: Senses and sensation in art; Arts, Modern -- 19th century; Arts, Modern -- 20th century
Description: Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? This book questions whether the authority of the visual in 'visual culture' should be deconstructed, and focuses on the roles of touch, taste, smell, and sound in the materiality of works of art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: disciplining the senses: Beethoven as synaesthetic paradigm / by Simon Shaw-Miller; title: Introduction: other than the visual: art, history and the senses / by Patrizia Di Bello and Gabriel Koureas; title: Photography and sculpture: a light touch / by Patrizia Di Bello; title: Seeing and tasting the divine: Simeon Solomon's homoerotic sacrament / by Dominic Janes; title: A trip to Japan in sixteen minutes: Sadakichi Hartmann's perfume concert and the aesthetics of scent / by Christina Bradstreet; title: Intimate modernism: the Nabis, symbolist theatre, and the Gesamtkunstwerk / by Katherine Kuenzli; title: In your face: the futurist's assault on the public's senses / by Francesca Bacci; title: Between silence and sound: John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and the sculptures of Dorothea Tanning / by Victoria Carruthers; title: Can you hear the lights? / by Alexander Dumbadze; title: Niki de Saint Phalle's Hon: an ethics through the visual? / by Nicola Foster; title: Airchitecture: guarded breaths and the [cough] art of ventilation / by James Drobnick; title: Trauma, space and embodiment: the sensorium of a divided city / by Gabriel Koureas.