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Touch is our fi rst 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; reverenceand 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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

• Full title: Human Touch
• Author: Elenor Long, Suzanne Reynolds, Jane Munro
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781913645052
• ISBN: 1913645053
• ID: 33470491
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 1140 g
• Dimensions: 247 × 286 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. January 2021

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