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Item Number: 109334
Title: Art, museums and touch
Author: Candlin, Fiona
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780719079337
Description: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. 24cm., hardcover, 208pp. illus. Publisher's summary : Art, museums and touch examines conceptions and uses of touch within arts museums and art history. Candlin deftly weaves archival material and contemporary museology together with government policy and art practice to question the foundations of modern art history, museums as sites of visual learning, and the association of touch with female identity and sexuality. She investigates the rise and fall of connoisseurship, the modernist valorisation of the artist’s hand, touch-based education, the regulation of audiences at participatory art events, and ideas of sensory deprivation. This remarkable study presents a challenging riposte to museology and art history that privileges visual experience. Candlin demonstrates that touch was, and still is, crucially important to museums and art history. At the same time she contests the recent characterisation of touch as an accessible and inclusive way of engaging with museum collections, and argues against prevalent ideas of touch as an unmediated and uncomplicated mode of learning. Taken as a whole Art, Museums and Touch redraws the sensory map of modern public museums and art history. An original and wide-ranging enquiry, Art Museums and Touch is essential reading for scholars and students of museum studies, art history, visual culture, disability, and for anyone interested in the cultural construction of the senses.

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