The sensing body in the visual arts : making and experiencing sculpture
Title:
The sensing body in the visual arts : making and experiencing sculpture
Author:
Driscoll, Rosalyn, author.
ISBN:
9781350122222
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
Physical Description:
xvi, 215 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: By the Light of the Body ; 1. Sight and Touch ; 2. The Intelligent Hand ; 3. Motion ; 4. In the Mind's Eye and Body ; 5. Time and Memory ; 6. E-motion ; 7. Sensible and Sensitive -- Part 2: Body and Art in the World ; 8. Touching as Seeing ; 9. Whole-body Seeing ; 10. Learning the Language ; 11. The Artist's Body ; 12. Please Touch ; 13. Sense of Connection ; 14. Seeing as Feeling ; 15. Reflection.
Abstract:
This book provides original grounds for integrating the bodily, somatic senses into our understanding of how we make and engage with visual art. Rosalyn Driscoll, a visual artist who spent years making tactile, haptic sculpture, shows how touch can deepen what we know through seeing, and even serve as a genuine alternative to sight. 0Driscoll explores the basic elements of the somatic senses, investigating the differences between touch and sight, the reciprocal nature of touch, and the centrality of motion and emotion. Awareness of the somatic senses offers rich aesthetic and perceptual possibilities for art making and appreciation, which will be of use for students of fine art, museum studies, art history and sensory studies.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 11004818 NB1153.T68 D75 yh