Introduction ; 1. Making sense of art, making art of sense ; 2. The Science and Art of the Sixth Sense ; 3. The Art of Touch in Early Modern Italy ; 4. The multisensory perception of touch ; 5. Aesthetic Touch ; 6. Art, aesthetics and the senses ; 7. Sculpture and touch? ; 8. Touch and the Cinematic Experience ; 9. Hearing Scents, Tasting Sights: Toward a Cross-Cultural Multi-Modal Theory of Aesthetics ; 10. The science of taste and smell ; 11. The Influence of hearing on eating, drinking and perception ; 12. Thinking Multisensory Culture ; 13. Sighting Sound: Listening with Eyes Open ; 14. The sight and sound of music: audio-visual interactions in science and the arts ; 15. Improvisation in time: The art of jazz- An interview with Greg Osby and Skip Hadden ; 16. Musical Tension ; 17. Cause and affect. A functional perspective on music and emotion ; 18. The Mystery of Representation: a Conversation with Vic Muniz ; 19. Pictorial cues in art and in visual perception ; 20. The many dimensions of the third one ; 21. Film, Narrative, and Cognitive Neuroscience ; 22. Mirror neurons and art ; 23. Pictorial art beyond sight: revealing the mind of a blind painter ; 24. Visual Music in Arts and Minds: Explorations with Synaesthesia ; 25. Visual Music and Musical Paintings: The quest for synaesthesia in the arts ; 26. Dance, Choreography and the Brain ; 27. Neuroaesthetic of performing arts ; 28. Multi-Sensory Aesthetics in Product Design ; 29. Architecture and the Body ; 30. Architecture and the existensial sense ; 31. Multimodal, interactive media and the illusion of realit
Francesca Bacci is the first art historian in residence at the Center for Mind and Brain Sciences (University of Trento), where she is involved in collaborative research on neural correlates of the experience of art. She was trained as an art historian and restorer in the University of Udine, where she received her laurea in Preservation of the Fine Arts. She completed her Ph.D. in History of Art, as well as a Curatorial Certificate, as a Fulbright Fellow at Rutgers University (USA). She has taught university courses for Oxford University, Oxford Brookes and Rutgers University. Her main research interests focus upon late nineteenth and early twentieth century European art, early photography, the psychology of art, curatorship and the public experience of art. Francesca Bacci has collaborated on research and exhibition projects with the Guggenheim Museum (Venice and NYC), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NYC), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Musee Rodin (Paris), and the MART Museum (Rovereto)
David Melcher is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. He received his PhD in Psychology from Rutgers University in 2001, and since then has been a lecturer, research fellow and professor in Italy, Great Britain and France. His research interests lie at the intersection of cognition, perception and action. He has written numerous articles for scientific journals including Nature, Current Biology, Neuron and Nature Neuroscience. His interest in neuroscience and the arts has led him to organize and participate in interdisciplinary workshops and to publish papers on art and science. He has given many public lectures and has been interviewed for radio, television and newspaper stories about his research. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the British Academy, the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society and the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research.
Art and the Senses is a vitally important book and applies to so many different research disciplines that I cannot begin to suggest them all. One area that will benefit immensely from the application of the findings presented in this volume is the healing profession, particularly psychotherapy and art therapy. Leonardo Journal Art and the Senses is no shrinking violet. Weighing in at just under 650 pages, it covers a lot of ground. There is literally something for everyone; all the essays are well written, accessible to both academic and well educated general readers and cover a huge range of history. Art and the Senses is a vitally important book. Leonardo Reviews This is, by any standards, a remarkable collection, which brings together a diversity of theoretically minded scholars, scientists, artists, and others. Michael Silk, The Times Literary Supplement
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