This bold agenda-setting title continues to spearhead interdisciplinary, multisensory research into experience, knowledge and practice. Drawing on an explosion of new, cutting edge research Sarah Pink uses real world examples to bring this innovative area of study to life. She e…
Force is the attempt of reading modern aesthetics as a theory of "force." It does so by showing that modern philosophy begins twice in aesthetics - in two different, even opposite forms: as an aesthetic of the subject and its "faculties" and as an experience and theory of force,…
Sensorial Aesthetics_frontcover -- Sensorial Aesthetics_285x195_e -- Introduction -- Kathleen Coessens -- Sound and Sense in Musical Phrases -- From the Art of the Keyboard to the Question of Phrase and Melody -- Michaël Levinas -- Intermezzo 1 -- On the Sensorial of Aesthetics …
The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply involved in the sensorial qualities of m…
Over the last decade, a realist tendency has made its mark on the world cinema map. What are its main aesthetic and political characteristics? How does it relate to the realist canon and world cinema history? What are the different facets of this phenomenon as expressed in diver…
"In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontro…
Biographical note: Tim Mehigan and Barry Empson, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
"The Cultural History of the Senses set delves into the sensory foundations of Western civilization, taking a comprehensive period-by-period approach which provides a broad understanding of the life of the senses from antiquity to the modern day. Each of the volumes explores the…
"In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontro…
