Sensory Crossovers
Synesthesia in American Art
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
111 pages
978-0-9779910-5-1 (ISBN)
Description
Synesthesia in its simplest terms refers to sensory fusion's or crossovers. Interest peaked between 1890 and 1930, when synesthesia became a focus of serious attention in the fields of visual art, music, literature and linguistics. During that period, Edvard Munch and Wassily Kandinsky were probably the best-known painters to respond visually to non-visual sensory stimuli. This catalogue brings alive synesthesia's underpinnings, with a broader study documenting the formal and expressive purposes these crossovers have served for American painters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque
United States
Illustrations
72 colour plates, 1 black & white plate, 1 colour photograph
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
642 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9779910-5-1 (9780977991051)
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Persons
Sharyn R. Udall is an Art Historian, author, and independent curator who has written, taught and lectured widely on the art of the Americas. She takes a special interest in women in the visual arts, in the transnational arts of the Americas, and in interdisciplinary associations among artists and writers. Nancy Weekly is Head of Collections and the Charles Cary Rumsey Curator, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, New York.