The sensing body in the visual arts : making and experiencing sculpture / Rosalyn Driscoll.

By: Driscoll, Rosalyn [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, c2022Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xvi, 215 pages: illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 978-1-350-28214-8Subject(s): SCULPTURE -- APPRECIATION | TACTILE ART | SCULPTURE AND TOUCHLOC classification: NB 1153 D75 2022
Contents:
List of Figures -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "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. Driscoll 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."-- back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209) and index.

List of Figures -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

"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. Driscoll 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."-- back cover.

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