The Sensing Body in the Visual Arts: Making and Experience Sculpture

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Authors
Rosalyn Driscoll
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year Published
2020
Copies
1
Call Number
NB 1142.5. .d75 2020
ISBN Number
9781350122222
Description
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.
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