Sculpture and Touch

ISBN-13: 9780367669379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Peter Dent

Opis

This book introduces a new impetus to the discussion of the relationship between touch and sculpture by setting up a dialogue between art historians and individuals who are working in disciplines beyond art history. The collection brings together a diverse set of approaches, with essays tackling subjects from prehistoric figurines to the work of co

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction, Peter Dent. Part I Origins: Touch and the cheirotic apprehension of prehistoric figurines, Doug Bailey; Touching sculpture, Hagi Kenaan; Bringing into being: vivifying sculpture through touch, Michael Paraskos; Pictorial essay A: out of sight, Claude Heath. Part II Approaches: To touch: Herder and sculpture, Andrew Benjamin; A taxonomy of touch: tactile encounters in Renaissance Italy, Geraldine A. Johnson; The neglected power of touch: what the cognitive neurosciences can tell us about the importance of touch in artistic communication, Alberto Gallace and Charles Spence; When touch shatters meaning: the case of sculptures made for sight only, Francesca Bacci; Pictorial essay B: playing with fire, Rosalyn Driscoll. Part III Identities: Beyond the touch tour, Julia Cassim; The sculptor is a blind man: Constantin Brancusi’s Sculpture for the Blind, Sebastiano Barassi; Embracing stone, holding brushes: differentiating touch in the Unit One photographs, Fiona Candlin; Lorenzo Ghiberti and Michelangelo in search of the feeling hand, James Hall; Pictorial essay C: the touch of the oracle, Michael Petry. Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Peter Dent is lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK.