Title & Author:

Art and the senses / edited by Francesca Bacci and David Melcher.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Description:

xxv, 642 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Making sense of art, making art of sense / Achille Bonito Oliva -- 2. The science and art of the sixth sense / Nicholas J. Wade -- 3. The art of touch in early modern Italy / Geraldine A. Johnson -- 4. The multisensory perception of touch / Charles Spence -- 5. Aesthetic touch / Rosalyn Driscoll -- 6. Rendering the sensory world semantic / Elio Franzini -- 7. Sculpture and touch / Francesca Bacci -- 8. Touch and the cinematic experience / Jennifer M. Barker -- 9. Hearing scents, tasting sights: toward a cross-cultural multimodal theory of aesthetics / David Howes -- 10. The science of taste and smell / Tim Jacob -- 11. 'Sound bites': auditory contributions to the perception and consumption of food and drink / Heston Blumenthal -- 12. Thinking multisensory culture / Laura U. Marks -- 13. Sighting sound: listening with eyes open / Simon Shaw-Miller -- 14. The sight and sound of music: audiovisual interactions in science and the arts / Massimiliano Zampini -- 15. Improvisation in time: the art of jazz / Skip Hadden -- 16. Musical tension / Fred Lerdahl -- 17. Cause and affect: a functional perspective on music and emotion / Guy Madison -- 18. The mystery of representation: a conversation with Vik Muniz / David Melcher -- 19. Pictorial cues in art and in visual perception / Patrick Cavanagh -- 20. The many dimensions of the third one / Ruggero Pierantoni -- 21. Film, narrative, and cognitive neuroscience / Joseph P. Magliano -- 22. Mirror neurons and art / Vittorio Gallese -- 23. Pictorial art beyond sight: revealing the mind of a blind painter / Alvaro Pascual-Leone -- 24. Visual music in arts and minds: explorations with synaesthesia / Jamie Ward -- 25. Visual music and musical paintings: the quest for synaesthesia in the arts / Cretien van Campen -- 26. Dance, choreography, and the brain / Ivar Hagendoorn -- 27. Neuroaesthetics of performing arts / Patrick Haggard -- 28. Multisensory aesthetics in product design / Paul Hekkert -- 29. Architecture and the body / Alberto Perez-Gomez -- 30. Architecture and the existential sense: space, body, and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa -- 31. Multimodal, interactive media and the illusion of reality / Elena Pasquinelli.

Summary:

The senses play a vital role in our health, our social interactions, and in enjoying food, music and the arts. The book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the senses, ranging from the neuroscience of sensory processing in the body, to the role of the senses in the arts.

ISBN:

9780199230600 (hbk.)
0199230609 (hbk.)
9780199674978
0199674973

Subject:

Senses and sensation.
Senses and sensation in art.
Sens et sensations.
Sens et sensations dans l'art.
senses.
sensation.
Förnimmelser i konsten.

Added entries:

Bacci, Francesca, 1972- editor.
Melcher, David, 1971- editor.

Art & the senses

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278965
Call No.: BIB 214759
Status: Available