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Author:   Patrizia Di Bello ,  Gabriel Koureas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138257719

ISBN 10:   1138257710
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword: disciplining the senses: Beethoven as synaesthetic paradigm, Simon Shaw-Miller; Introduction: other than the visual: art, history and the senses, Patrizia Di Bello and Gabriel Koureas; Photography and sculpture: a light touch, Patrizia Di Bello; Seeing and tasting the divine: Simeon Solomon's homoerotic sacrament, Dominic Janes; A Trip to Japan in 16 Minutes: Sadakichi Hartmann's perfume concert and the aesthetics of scent, Christina Bradstreet; Intimate modernism: the Nabis, symbolist theatre, and the Gesamkunstwerk, Katherine Kuenzli; In your face: the futurists' assault on the public's senses, Francesca Bacci; Between silence and sound: John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and the sculptures of Dorothea Tanning, Victoria Carruthers; 'Can you hear the lights?', Alexander Dumbadze; Niki de Saint Phalle's Hon: an ethics through the visual?, Nicola Foster; Airchitecture: guarded breaths and the [cough] art of ventilation, Jim Drobnick; Trauma, space and embodiment: the sensorium of a divided city, Gabriel Koureas; Select bibliography; Indexes.

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'...a fascinating volume full of insights about the sensory histories in art history ... a pioneering collection.' Caroline Jones, MIT, USA 'Art, History, and the Senses: 1830 to the Present with its illustrations, general index, senses index, select bibliography, with its readability and precise and thorough explication of particular works of art is an important beginning to an art history of the senses.' Senses and Society

'...a fascinating volume full of insights about the sensory histories in art history ... a pioneering collection.' Caroline Jones, MIT, USA 'Art, History, and the Senses: 1830 to the Present with its illustrations, general index, senses index, select bibliography, with its readability and precise and thorough explication of particular works of art is an important beginning to an art history of the senses.' Senses and Society

Author Information

Patrizia Di Bello is Lecturer in Film and Visual Media in the School of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Gabriel Koureas is Associate Lecturer in the History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

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