The Museum of the Senses: Experiencing Art and Collections - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Constance Classen, David Howes (Editor)Series:Sensory StudiesPublish date:2017-11-02Pages:184
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781474253796ISBN-10:1474253792UPC:9781474253796Book Category:Art, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Museum Studies, Social History, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC26J64188
The Museum of the Senses: Experiencing Art and Collections
Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses, revealing how people used to handle, smell and even taste collection pieces. Topics range from the...
Series: Sensory Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781474253796ISBN-10:1474253792UPC:9781474253796Book Category:Art, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Museum Studies, Social History, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC26J64188
Constance Classen is the author of The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch (2012) and The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination (1998), among other works. She currently serves as an associate on two international research projects on art and the senses.
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