Title & Author:

Prière de toucher = the touch of art : interdisciplinary symposium / edited by Museum Tinguely, Basel ; managing editor, Lisa Anette Ahlers ; director, curator, Roland Wetzel ; translations, Otmar Binder.

Publication:

Basel : Museum Tinguely ; Weitra : Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, [2016]
©2016

Description:

190 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Follow-up to the interdisciplinary symposium of 8-9 April 2016 on the occasion of an exhibition held at Museum Tinguely, Basel, February 12 - May 16, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prière de toucher : the touch of art : Museum Tinguely, Basel 12 February -- 16 May 2016 / Roland Wetzel -- Prière de toucher : interdisciplinary symposium : a guide to the essays / Lisa Anette Ahlers -- The sense of touch as common sense : reflections on the media aesthetics of the tactile sense / Karin Harrasser -- When eyes touch : Carolee Schneemann's erotic experimental film Fuses (1964-1967) / Kathleen Bühler -- Dancing prayers : modern dance and touching the invisible / Eva Dietrich -- Can we touch digital artifacts? / Till A. Heilmann -- Presence of the surface : hapticality and architecture / Philip Ursprung -- What you think you feel when wearing clothes : sensory experience in a high-tech fashion era / Dinie van den Heuvel -- Touching and being touched : the status of dirt in architecture / Eberhard Tröger -- Prayers for touch : Marcel Duchamp's Prière de toucher as Prière de touche / Lars Blunck -- Touching pictures : pleasure and pain in painting / Markus Rath -- Casting, wrapping and replication : Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray's malleable creaivity / Adina Kamien-Kazhdan -- Sacred art and the pilgrim's touch / Constance Classen -- Über Vibrationsempfindungen (On sensing vibrations) : the birth of a model of tactility circa 1960 / Ute Holl -- The sense of touch as a precondition for an awareness of one's own body / Martin Grunwald.

Summary:

Can art be touched? What is the role played by feeling, touching and grasping in human experience? 'Prière de toucher. The Touch of Art' pulls together the papers delivered at the interdisciplinary symposium held during the exhibition of the same name at Museum Tinguely, Basel in April 2016. These essays from fields which include the history of art and architecture, fashion design, media, cultural, religious and film studies and the neurosciences offer highly instructive and frequently surprising insights into the all-pervasive importance of touch.

ISBN:

9783952439272 (English edition - Museum Tinguely ; pbk.)
3952439274
9783990287019 (English edition - Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz ; pbk.)
399028701X

Subject:

Senses and sensation in art Exhibitions.
Senses and sensation in art Congresses.
Touch Exhibitions.
Touch Congresses.
Arts, Modern Themes, motives Exhibitions.
Arts, Modern Themes, motives Congresses.
Sens et sensations dans l'art Expositions.
Sens et sensations dans l'art Congrès.
Toucher Expositions.
Toucher Congrès.
Arts, Modern Themes, motives.
Senses and sensation in art.
Touch.

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Ahlers, Lisa Anette, editor.
Wetzel, Roland, curator.
Museum Jean Tinguely Basel, host institution, editor.

Touch of art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295582
Call No.: BIB 241870
Status: Available