Description
Title: Sensory Studies Manifesto, The: Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts & Human Sciences
Author: HOWES DAVID
Illustrator: 12 B&W FIGURES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/07/2022
Imprint: UNI OF TORONTO PRESS
Price: $60.00
Publishing status: Active
The Sensory Studies Manifesto explores the origin and development of the revolutionary new field of sensory studies.
The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring groundbreaking experimentation in the world of art and design, where the focus is now on mixing and manipulating the senses.
The Sensory Studies Manifesto tracks these transformations and opens multiple lines of investigation into the diverse ways in which human beings sense and make sense of the world. This unique volume treats the human sensorium as a dynamic whole, which is best approached from historical, anthropological, geographic, and sociological perspectives. In doing so, it has altered our understanding of sense perception by directing attention to the sociality of sensation and the cultural mediation of sense experience and expression.
David Howes challenges the assumptions of mainstream Western psychology by foregrounding the agency, interactivity, creativity, and wisdom of the senses as shaped by culture. The Sensory Studies Manifesto sets the stage for a radical reorientation of research in the human sciences and artistic practice.
Contents: Acknowledgements Prologue: Coming to Our Senses Part I: The Sensorial Revolution in the Human Sciences 1. On the Geography and Anthropology the Senses 2. On the History and Sociology of the Senses 3. On the Psychology and Neurobiology of the Senses in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective Part II: Case Studies 4. The Modern Sensorium: A Case Study in Sensory History, 1920-2001 5. Melanesian Sensory Formations: A Comparative Case Study in Sensory Ethnography Part III: Multisensory Aesthetics 6. \”A New Age of Aesthetics\”: Sensory Art and Design 7. Sensory Museology: Bringing the Senses to Museum Visitors 8. Performative Sensory Environments: Alternative Orchestrations of the Senses in Contemporary Intermedia Art References List of Figures
Author Biography: David Howes is a professor of anthropology and co-director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University.
ISBN: 9781487528621
Weight: 1gr
Dimension: 228mm X 152mm
Edition: 01