| Picturing Sound and Sounding History Contributor(s): Henriques, Julian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501335359 ISBN-13: 9781501335358 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of August 21, 2025 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - Art | History - General - Science | Acoustics & Sound |
| Physical Information: 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: What do we see in sound? Picturing Sound and Sounding History focuses on the important intersection between sight and the way visual items such as as paintings, drawings, and diagrams stimulate our auditory imagination. Though, as Marcel Duchamp says, "one can look at seeing, one can't hear hearing", the media and mechanisms for sound making - its propagation, transmission, recording and reception - are clearly visible. This book explores the relationships between sound, sight and image chronologically, in a variety of historical contexts across the arts and sciences. With reference to the phenomenon of synesthesia, it examines the way sights and sounds affect us physically, socially and emotionally, and highlights the important role that sound and sound-making have had historically from pre-history to the present. |