Overview

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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Author:   Francesca Bacci (Research Fellow, Center for Mind and Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy) ,  David Melcher (Associate Professor, Faculty of Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy) ,  David
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   1.170kg
ISBN:  

9780199674978

ISBN 10:   0199674973
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   04 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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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

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

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