The human touch : making art, leaving traces / Elenor Long, Suzanne Reynolds and Jane Munro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Elenor, author.

Reynolds, Suzanne, author.

Munro, Jane, author.

Contributor:

Fitzwilliam Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation in art--Exhibitions.

Senses and sensation in art.

Tactile art--Exhibitions.

Tactile art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge ; London : in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

Touch is our first sense. Through touch we make art, stake a claim to what we own and those we love, express our faith, our belief, our anger. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the world; touch is how we connect. Drawing on works of art spanning four thousand years and from across the globe, this book explores the fundamental role of touch in human experience, and offers new ways of looking. In a series of lavishly illustrated essays, the authors explore anatomy and skin; the relationship between the brain, hand, and creativity; touch, desire and possession; ideological touch; reverence and iconoclasm. A final section collects a range of reflections, historic and contemporary, on touch. Objects range from anonymous ancient Egyptian limestone sculpture, to medieval manuscripts and panel paintings, to devotional and spiritual objects from across the world, to love tokens and fede rings. Drawings, paintings, prints and sculpture by Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Carracci, Hogarth, Turner, Rodin, Degas, and Kollwitz are explored, along with work by contemporary artists Judy Chicago, Frank Auerbach, Richard Long, the Chapman Brothers, and Richard Rawlins. The events of 2020 have made us newly alive to the preciousness and the dangers of touch, making this exploration of our most fundamental sense particularly timely and resonant. Exhibition: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (05.01.-03.05.2021).

Contents:

The human touch / Suzanne Reynolds and Elenor Ling

An anatomy of touch, sense, hands, skin / Suzanne Reynolds

Raymond Antrobus, 'On touch'

Hands at work / Jane Munro

Taking hold: communication, possession, emotion / Eleanor Ling

RUN, 'My many hands'

The power of touch / Suzanne Reynolds

Revere/destroy / Elenor Ling and Suzanne Reynolds

The power is in your hands

Carmen Mariscal, 'On bound hands'

A show of hands / Richard Mark Rawlins.

Notes:

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same title at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 5 January-3 May 2021.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781913645052

1913645053

OCLC:

1222800125