| Art, museums and touch Contributor(s): Candlin, Fiona (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719079330 ISBN-13: 9780719079337 Publisher: Manchester University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: August 2010 Click for more in this series: Rethinking Art's Histories |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Museum Studies - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Series: Rethinking Art's Histories |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
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| Publisher Description: Art, museums and touch' examines conceptions and uses of touch within arts museums and art history. Candlin deftly weaves archival material and contemporary museology together with government policy and art practice to question the foundations of modern art history, museums as sites of visual learning, and the association of touch with female identity and sexuality. This remarkable study presents a challenging riposte to museology and art history that privileges visual experience. Candlin demonstrates that touch was, and still is, crucially important to museums and art history. At the same time she contests the recent characterisation of touch as an accessible and inclusive way of engaging with museum collections, and argues against prevalent ideas of touch as an unmediated and uncomplicated mode of learning. An original and wide-ranging enquiry, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of museum studies, art history, visual culture, disability, and for anyone interested in the cultural construction of the senses. |
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