The haptic arts : how touch shapes our place in the world /
This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of "art" and "aesthetics" to include worldly arts such as medicine, nation building and translation while rethinking more traditional arts of literature, music and painting. T...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2026].
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| Summary: | This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of "art" and "aesthetics" to include worldly arts such as medicine, nation building and translation while rethinking more traditional arts of literature, music and painting. Touch is a form of reciprocal interchange, touching always involves being touched in return. It creates a sense of embeddedness in a world that promotes a willingness to take social action, and it heightens concern with spatial perception and metamorphosis with an eye towards transforming experience itself. Focusing on subjects as diverse as Helen Keller, the evolutionary history of the human hand and practical "haptic" endeavors such as toolmaking, The Haptic Arts situates the arts and value within everyday cares and pursuits as tools that extend and strengthen our reach into the world. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350589483 1350589489 9781350589520 1350589527 |