Art and the Senses - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199674973 ISBN 13: 9780199674978

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2013

Riassunto

In recent years, there has been a re-discovery of the importance of sensory experience in our daily lives. The senses play a vital role in our health, in our social interactions, and in enjoying food, music and the arts.

This book provides an introduction to the study of the senses and the arts. It contains over thirty chapters written by artists/practitioners, including, musicians, visual artists, a "sculptor for the blind", a celebrity chef, a choreographer, designers, and architects. It also includes chapters by leading neuroscientists and psychologists who study the senses, as well as chapters from scholars from the humanities, including, art history, anthropology, and cultural studies.
The book provides a unique interdisciplinary overview of the senses, ranging from the neuroscience of sensory processing in the body, to cultural influences on how the senses are used in society, to the role of the senses in the arts. The chapters are written by leading academics, artists and scientists, each of whom brings different perspectives and experiences to the book. Together, these chapters form a timely snapshot of research on the human senses which makes clear a number of common themes that run across the arts, humanities, and sciences.
The first book of its kind, 'Art and the Senses' will be a valuable tool for anyone interested in how the senses interact with eachother to create meaningful human experience.

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Recensione:

The most important characteristic of Art and the Senses is that it is a truly multidisciplinary work ... The book offers the reader a lot of variety and interesting insights. Maybe its greatest strength is that is really makes us aware of how strongly multisensual experiences of art are/can be. (M Dorothee Augustin, Perception Vol. 41)

Art and the Senses is an excellent sourcebook on the relationship between art and our senses. Comprised of over 30 chapters and coming in at over 600 pages, this compendium is, to my knowledge, the first to broadly tackle sensory perception in relation to artistic endeavors. Indeed, it offers an extraordinary overview of the subject. Moreover, despite covering a broad spectrum of both qualitative and quantitative material, the book is quite accessible to a generalist reader like me. (Leonardo Reviews)

Contenuti:

• Introduction
• 1: Francesca Bacci: Making sense of art, making art of sense
• 2: Nicholas J. Wade: The Science and Art of the Sixth Sense
• 3: Geraldine A. Johnson: The Art of Touch in Early Modern Italy
• 4: Charles Spence: The multisensory perception of touch
• 5: Rosalyn Driscoll: Aesthetic Touch
• 6: Elio Franzini: Art, aesthetics and the senses
• 7: Francesca Bacci: Sculpture and touch?
• 8: Jennifer M. Barker: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
• 9: David Howes: Hearing Scents, Tasting Sights: Toward a Cross-Cultural Multi-Modal Theory of Aesthetics
• 10: Tim Jacob: The science of taste and smell
• 11: Charles Spence, Maya U. Shankar, and Heston Blumenthal: The Influence of hearing on eating, drinking and perception
• 12: Laura U. Marks: Thinking Multisensory Culture
• 13: Simon Shaw-Miller: Sighting Sound: Listening with Eyes Open
• 14: David Melcher and Massimiliano Zampini: The sight and sound of music: audio-visual interactions in science and the arts
• 15: David Melcher: Improvisation in time: The art of jazz- An interview with Greg Osby and Skip Hadden
• 16: Carol L. Krumhansl and Fred Lerdahl: Musical Tension
• 17: Guy Madison: Cause and affect. A functional perspective on music and emotion
• 18: Vic Muniz and David Melcher: The Mystery of Representation: a Conversation with Vic Muniz
• 19: David Melcher and Patrick Cavanagh: Pictorial cues in art and in visual perception
• 20: Ruggero Pierantoni: The many dimensions of the third one
• 21: Jeffrey M. Zacks & Joseph P. Magliano: Film, Narrative, and Cognitive Neuroscience
• 22: Vittorio Gallese: Mirror neurons and art
• 23: Amir Amedi, Lotfi B. Merabet, Noa Tal, Alvaro Pascual-Leone: Pictorial art beyond sight: revealing the mind of a blind painter
• 24: Dr Jamie Ward: Visual Music in Arts and Minds: Explorations with Synaesthesia
• 25: Cretien van Campen: Visual Music and Musical Paintings: The quest for synaesthesia in the arts
• 26: Ivar Hagendoorn: Dance, Choreography and the Brain
• 27: Beatriz Calvo-Merino & Patrick Haggard: Neuroaesthetic of performing arts
• 28: Hendrik N.J. Schifferstein & Paul Hekkert: Multi-Sensory Aesthetics in Product Design
• 29: Alberto Perez-Gomez: Architecture and the Body
• 30: Juhani Pallasmaa: Architecture and the existensial sense
• 31: Elena Pasquinelli: Multimodal, interactive media and the illusion of realit

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199674973
• ISBN 13: 9780199674978
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 672
• Redattore: Bacci Francesca, Melcher David