The Power of Touch

Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context
Herausgeber: Pye, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in museums and other cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781598743043
• ISBN-10: 159874304X
• Artikelnr.: 23130470

Autorenporträt

Edited by Pye, Elizabeth

Inhaltsangabe

chapter0 Introduction: The Power of Touch, Elizabeth Pye; Part 1 Science of
Touch; Chapter 1 Weighing Up the Value of Touch, Alan Wing, Christos
Giachritsis, Roberta Roberts; Chapter 2 Making Sense of Touch: A
Multisensory Approach to the Perception of Objects, Charles Spence; Part 2
History Of Touch; Chapter 3 Archaeology of Touch: Babylonian Magic and
Healing, Mark Geller; Chapter 4 For Your Eyes Only? the Magic Touch of
Relics, Jan Geisbusch; Chapter 5 Don't Touch! Hands off! art, Blindness and
the Conservation of Expertise, Fiona Candlin; Part 3 Professional Touch;
Chapter 6 Exploring the Role of Touch in Connoisseurship and the
Identification of Objects, Sally MacDonald; Chapter 7 Understanding
Objects: The Role of Touch in Conservation, Elizabeth Pye; Part 4 Touch and
Memory; Chapter 8 The Elderly as 'Curators' in North London, Michael
Rowlands; Chapter 9 Easing the Transition: Using Museum Objects with
Elderly People, Claire Jacques; Part 5 Touch and Memory; Chapter 10 The
Touch Experience in Museums in the UK and Japan, Julia Cassim; Chapter 11
Touching Art, Touching You: Blindart, Sense & Sensuality, Sharareh Khayami;
Chapter 12 Learning Through Touch, Tara Trewinnard-Boyle, Emily Tabassi;
Chapter 13 To Play or Not to Play: Making a Collection of Musical
Instruments Accessible, Andrew Lamb; Chapter 14 Collaborative Touch:
Working with a Community Artist to Restore a Kwakwaka'wakw Mask, Jessica
Johnson; Part 6 Virtual Touch; Chapter 15 Touching Ghosts: Haptic
Technologies in Museums, David Prytherch, Marie Jefsioutine; Chapter 16
Exploring Virtual Touch in the Creative Arts and Conservation, Angela
Geary;