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Item Number: 129516
Title: Sculpture and Touch
Author: Dent, Peter (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409412311
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 237pp., 56 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction, Peter Dent; Part 1 Origins: touch and the cheirotic apprehension of prehistoric figurines, Doug Bailey; Touching sculpture, Hagi Kenaan; Bringing into being: vivifying sculpture through touch, Michael Paraskos; Out of sight, Claude Heath. Part 2 Approaches: Endless touching: Herder and sculpture, Andrew Benjamin; A taxonomy of touch: tactile encounters in Renaissance Italy, Geraldine Johnson; The neglected power of touch: what the cognitive neurosciences can tell us about the importance of touch in artistic communication, Alberto Gallace and Charles Spence; When touch shatters meaning: the case of sculptures made for sight only, Francesca Bacci; Playing with fire, Rosalyn Driscoll. Part 3 Identities: Beyond the touch tour, Julia Cassim; The sculptor is a blind man: Constantin Brancusi’s Sculpture for the Blind, Sebastiano Barassi; Embracing stone, holding brushes: differentiating touch in the Unit One photographs, Fiona Candlin; Lorenzo Ghiberti and Michelangelo in search of the feeling hand, James Hall; The touch of the oracle, Michael Petry.
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