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

Author(s): Melcher, David | Bacci, Francesca

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Main Title: Art and the senses
Author(s): Bacci, Francesca
Melcher, David
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Collation: 676 p. : ill.
25 cm.
ISBN: 9780199674978
Dewey Class: 152.1
Contents: Introduction --
1. Making sense of art, making art of sense --
2. The Science and Art of the Sixth Sense --
3. The Art of Touch in Early Modern Italy --
4. The multisensory perception of touch --
5. Aesthetic Touch --
6. Art, aesthetics and the senses --
7. Sculpture and touch? --
8. Touch and the Cinematic Experience --
9. Hearing Scents, Tasting Sights: Toward a Cross-Cultural Multi-Modal Theory of Aesthetics --
10. The science of taste and smell --
11. The Influence of hearing on eating, drinking and perception --
12. Thinking Multisensory Culture --
13. Sighting Sound: Listening with Eyes Open --
14. The sight and sound of music: audio-visual interactions in science and the arts --
15. Improvisation in time: The art of jazz- An interview with Greg Osby and Skip Hadden --
16. Musical Tension --
17. Cause and affect. A functional perspective on music and emotion --
18. The Mystery of Representation: a Conversation with Vic Muniz --
19. Pictorial cues in art and in visual perception --
20. The many dimensions of the third one --
21. Film, Narrative, and Cognitive Neuroscience --
22. Mirror neurons and art --
23. Pictorial art beyond sight: revealing the mind of a blind painter --
24. Visual Music in Arts and Minds: Explorations with Synaesthesia --
25. Visual Music and Musical Paintings: The quest for synaesthesia in the arts --
26. Dance, Choreography and the Brain --
27. Neuroaesthetic of performing arts --
28. Multi-Sensory Aesthetics in Product Design --
29. Architecture and the Body --
30. Architecture and the existensial sense --
31. Multimodal, interactive media and the illusion of reality.
Language: English
Subject: Senses and sensation in art.
BRN: 9041

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