For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk-the ideal of the total work of art-has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalizati...More info...
A new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relation to space, site and atmosphere. Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences offers a new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relatio...More info...
The Art of Sensorial Language examines audience interaction, multisensory experiences that can be understood internationally and cross-culturally. It considers interactivity not as a technological mode of interaction but as a direct and imm...More info...
Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of material culture, promising luxury, social distinction and the hope of limitless experience and exc...More info...
How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers in Western Europe, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which pain...More info...
The essays in this volume highlight the agency, intentionality, and creativity of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge across the early modern period, from approximately 1500 to 1700. Embodiment, Expertise,...More info...
Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently sha...More info...
For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalizatio...More info...
Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of material culture, promising luxury, social distinction and the hope of limitless experience and exces...More info...
In Monumental Sounds, Matthew G. Shoaf examines interactions between sight and hearing in spectacular church decoration in Italy between 1260-1320. In this age of vision, authorities concerns about whether and how worshipers listened to sacred sp...More info...
(Pub. Date: 18-May-2021, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ISBN-13: 9783034335621)
Die gegenwartige Forschung zahlreicher Disziplinen wird in vielen ihrer Felder dominiert von Themen und Fragenstellungen, deren Grundlage als gekennzeichnet wird....More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-May-2021, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108491396)
Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focuses on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century and combi...More info...
Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources offers a comprehensive collection of key writings essential to anyone wishing to gain a critical understanding of sensory studies. The four volumes include 101 essays from leading scholars in the hum...More info...
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How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin...More info...
Touch is our first sense. Through touch we make art, stake a claim to what we own and those we love, and express our faith, beliefs, and anger. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the world; touch is how we connect. Drawing o...More info...
Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently sh...More info...
Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe highlights the agency and intentionality of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge from approximately 1500 to 1700. Focused case studies show how artisans, poets, writers, a...More info...
Sarah Schleuning, Ini Archibong, Matt Checkowski, Misha Kahn, Steven Ladd, William Ladd, Laurie Haycock Makela, Yuri Suzuki
(Pub. Date: 14-Apr-2020, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300247039)
An experiment in interactive design and a bold reimaging of the museum exhibition This catalogue pioneers a new approach to the art museum exhibition, using the power of design to explore how we experience the world through our va...More info...
(Pub. Date: 25-Oct-2019, Hardback, Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271083452)
Explores how the distinctive formal and material qualities of a range of Romanesque sculpture types stimulated multisensory religious experiences. Emphasizes the power of these sculptures to come alive in ritual and produce emotional responses for...More info...
In Interruptions and Transitions Barbara Baert discusses the in-between space where humans and their artistic expression meet by linking the sensory experiences in medieval and early modern visual culture, the hermeneutics of imagery, and the...More info...
Using the fun, interactive world of Minecraft and key concepts in STEAM, two teachers developed the Minecraft and STEAM series to be used in and out of the classroom. In Minecraft and STEAM, students discover that Minecraft isnt just a game, its a...More info...
