Description:
Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? Art, History and the Senses questions whether the authority of the visual in "visual culture" should be deconstructed, and focuses on the roles of touch, taste, smell, and sound in works of art at specific moments in their history. The collection re-evaluates sensory knowledge and experience in the arts and encourages re-engagement with notions of style and form.
Review Quotes:
'...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