| Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present Contributor(s): Bello, Patrizia Di (Editor), Koureas, Gabriel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138257710 ISBN-13: 9781138257719 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 700.904 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.71 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present 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. From the nineteenth century onward, notions of synaesthesia and the multi-sensorial were important to a series of art movements from Symbolism to Futurism and Installations. The essays in this collection evaluate works of art at specific moments in their history, and consider how senses other than the visual have (or have not) affected the works' meaning. The result is a re-evaluation of sensory knowledge and experience in the arts, encouraging a new level of engagement with ideas of style and form. |