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Power of Touch Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context
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Power of Touch Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context

Elizabeth Pye Staff; Pye, Elizabeth
ISBN-10: 1598743031
ISBN-13: 9781598743036

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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.
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List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The Power of Touch
Science of Touch
Weighing up the Value of Touch
Making Sense of Touch: A Multisensory Approach to the Perception of Objects
History of Touch
Archaeology of Touch: Babylonian Magic and Healing
For Your Eyes Only? The Magic Touch of Relics
Don't Touch! Hands Off! Art, Blindness, and the Conservation of Expertise
Professional Touch
Exploring the Role of Touch in Connoisseurship and the Identification of Objects
Understanding Objects: The Role of Touch in Conservation
Touch and Memory
The Elderly as 'Curators' in North London
Easing the Transition: Using Museum Objects with Elderly People
Touch and Discovery
The Touch Experience in Museums in the UK and Japan
Touching Art, Touching You: Blind Art, Sense, and Sensuality
Learning through Touch
To Play or Not To Play: Making a Collection of Musical Instruments Accessible
Collaborative Touch: Working with a Community Artist to Restore a Kwakwaka'wakw Mask
Virtual Touch
Touching Ghosts: Haptic Technologies in Museums
Exploring Virtual Touch in the Creative Arts and Conservation
Index
About the Contributors

List price: $94.00
Edition: 2007
Publisher: Left Coast Press, Incorporated
Binding: Trade Cloth
Pages: 262
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.99 lbs.
Language: English

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