Perspectives on Sensory History – serie
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23 produkter
At the Crossroads of the Senses
The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism
Häftad, 2025
418 kr
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Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, sounds, and shapes. Polina Dimova’s At the Crossroads of the Senses traces this new sensory experience of synaesthesia—the physiological or figurative blending …
Aromas of Asia
Exchanges, Histories, Threats
Av Hannah Gould, Gwyn McClelland
Häftad, 2023
491 kr
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A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previously constructed boundaries and transform social-sensory realities within contexts of environmental degradation, pathogen outbreaks, and racial politics. This innovative multidisciplinary volume …
Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris
Inbunden, 2019
467 kr
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The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a sonic approach to this remarkable age, opening our ears to the myriad ways in which sound revealed the complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, …
Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris
Häftad, 2021
396 kr
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The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a sonic approach to this remarkable age, opening our ears to the myriad ways in which sound revealed the complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, …
Sculpted Ear
Aurality and Statuary in the West
Inbunden, 2020
1209 kr
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Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statue—a type of anthropocentric statue that invites the viewer to imagine sounds the statue might make—The Sculpted Ear rethinks this relationship in light of …
Sculpted Ear
Aurality and Statuary in the West
Häftad, 2021
396 kr
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Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statue—a type of anthropocentric statue that invites the viewer to imagine sounds the statue might make—The Sculpted Ear rethinks this relationship in light of …
Objects of Vision
Making Sense of What We See
Av A. Joan Saab
Inbunden, 2020
918 kr
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Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on …
Objects of Vision
Making Sense of What We See
Av A. Joan Saab
Häftad, 2020
360 kr
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Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on …
Sensory History Manifesto
Inbunden, 2021
832 kr
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A Sensory History Manifesto is a brief and timely meditation on the state of the field. It invites historians who are unfamiliar with sensory history to adopt some of its insights and practices, and it urges current practitioners to think in new ways about writing histories of the senses.Starting …
Sensory History Manifesto
Häftad, 2021
271 kr
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A Sensory History Manifesto is a brief and timely meditation on the state of the field. It invites historians who are unfamiliar with sensory history to adopt some of its insights and practices, and it urges current practitioners to think in new ways about writing histories of the senses.Starting …
Scented Visions
Smell in Art, 1850-1914
Inbunden, 2022
1421 kr
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Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery. Meanwhile, the science of olfaction remained largely mysterious, prompting an impulse to “see smell” and inspiring …
Scented Visions
Smell in Art, 1850-1914
Häftad, 2023
419 kr
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Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery. Meanwhile, the science of olfaction remained largely mysterious, prompting an impulse to “see smell” and inspiring …
Stigma
Marking Skin in the Early Modern World
Av Katherine Dauge-Roth, Katherine Dauge-Roth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1421 kr
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The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of Asia, Europe, Africa, …
Stigma
Marking Skin in the Early Modern World
Av Katherine Dauge-Roth, Craig Koslofsky
Häftad, 2024
360 kr
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The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of Asia, Europe, Africa, …
Sensorial Investigations
A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law
Av David Howes
Inbunden, 2023
1286 kr
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David Howes’s sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people.In part 1, Howes demonstrates how sensory ethnography has yielded …
Sensorial Investigations
A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law
Av David Howes
Häftad, 2023
340 kr
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David Howes’s sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people.In part 1, Howes demonstrates how sensory ethnography has yielded …
Aromas of Asia
Exchanges, Histories, Threats
Av Hannah Gould, Hannah Gould m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1323 kr
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A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previously constructed boundaries and transform social-sensory realities within contexts of environmental degradation, pathogen outbreaks, and racial politics. This innovative multidisciplinary volume …
Networks of Touch
A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790–1840
Inbunden, 2024
1421 kr
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In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among China’s educated elites began to use touch to forge a more authentic relationship to the past, to challenge stagnant artistic canons, and to foster deeper human connections. Networks of Touch …
Networks of Touch
A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790–1840
Häftad, 2026
418 kr
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In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among China’s educated elites began to use touch to forge a more authentic relationship to the past, to challenge stagnant artistic canons, and to foster deeper human connections. Networks of Touch …
Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold War
Partition, Propaganda, Covert Operations
Inbunden, 2024
1480 kr
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The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses—and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While propaganda reached targets through vision and hearing, …
Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold War
Partition, Propaganda, Covert Operations
Häftad, 2024
479 kr
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The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses—and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While propaganda reached targets through vision and hearing, …
At the Crossroads of the Senses
The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism
Inbunden, 2024
1421 kr
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Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, sounds, and shapes. Polina Dimova’s At the Crossroads of the Senses traces this new sensory experience of synaesthesia—the physiological or figurative blending …
Picturing the Poor
Photography and the Politics of Poverty in the 1960s
Inbunden, 2026
1291 kr
Kommande
Throughout the 1960s—from the War on Poverty to the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign—Americans fiercely debated what the persistence of poverty meant for the United States. Picturing the Poor examines an array of rarely seen social documentary photographs to show that debates over poverty were also …
