1st Edition
The Power of Touch Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context
Edited By Elizabeth Pye
Copyright 2007
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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Despite the fact that we have a range of senses with which to perceive the world around us, museums and other cultural institutions have traditionally used sight as the main way to convey information. In everyday life, though, we use touch constantly in conjunction with sight. Why, then, does it play so small a role in the study and enjoyment of museum objects? Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.
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;
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Edited by Pye, Elizabeth
