The Museum of the Senses

Experiencing Art and Collections

By:

Constance Classen

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Sensory Studies Series

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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 tactile power of relics to the sensuous allure of cabinets of curiosities, and from the feel of a Rembrandt to the scent of Monet's garden. The book concludes with a discussion of how contemporary museums are stimulating the senses through interactive and multimedia displays. Classen, a leading authority on the cultural history of the senses, has produced a fascinating study of sensual and emotional responses to artefacts from the middle ages to the present. The Museum of the Senses is an important read for anyone interested in the history of art as well as for students and researchers in cultural studies and museum studies.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

November 2nd, 2017

Author

Constance Classen

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

23 bw illus

Pages

184

Series

Sensory Studies Series

ISBN-13

9781474253796

Product ID

26192979

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