Art and the senses / edited by Francesca Bacci and David Melcher.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

xxv, 642 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

1. Making sense of art, making art of sense / Achille Bonito Oliva -- 2. The science and art of the sixth sense / Nicholas J. Wade -- 3. The art of touch in early modern Italy / Geraldine A. Johnson -- 4. The multisensory perception of touch / Charles Spence -- 5. Aesthetic touch / Rosalyn Driscoll -- 6. Rendering the sensory world semantic / Elio Franzini -- 7. Sculpture and touch / Francesca Bacci -- 8. Touch and the cinematic experience / Jennifer M. Barker -- 9. Hearing scents, tasting sights: toward a cross-cultural multimodal theory of aesthetics / David Howes -- 10. The science of taste and smell / Tim Jacob -- 11. 'Sound bites': auditory contributions to the perception and consumption of food and drink / Heston Blumenthal -- 12. Thinking multisensory culture / Laura U. Marks -- 13. Sighting sound: listening with eyes open / Simon Shaw-Miller -- 14. The sight and sound of music: audiovisual interactions in science and the arts / Massimiliano Zampini -- 15. Improvisation in time: the art of jazz / Skip Hadden -- 16. Musical tension / Fred Lerdahl -- 17. Cause and affect: a functional perspective on music and emotion / Guy Madison -- 18. The mystery of representation: a conversation with Vik Muniz / David Melcher -- 19. Pictorial cues in art and in visual perception / Patrick Cavanagh -- 20. The many dimensions of the third one / Ruggero Pierantoni -- 21. Film, narrative, and cognitive neuroscience / Joseph P. Magliano -- 22. Mirror neurons and art / Vittorio Gallese -- 23. Pictorial art beyond sight: revealing the mind of a blind painter / Alvaro Pascual-Leone -- 24. Visual music in arts and minds: explorations with synaesthesia / Jamie Ward -- 25. Visual music and musical paintings: the quest for synaesthesia in the arts / Cretien van Campen -- 26. Dance, choreography, and the brain / Ivar Hagendoorn -- 27. Neuroaesthetics of performing arts / Patrick Haggard -- 28. Multisensory aesthetics in product design / Paul Hekkert -- 29. Architecture and the body / Alberto Perez-Gomez -- 30. Architecture and the existential sense: space, body, and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa -- 31. Multimodal, interactive media and the illusion of reality / Elena Pasquinelli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.