Museums and the Embodied Mind: Sensory Engagement with Artworks and Architecture. (2nd November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smith, Barry C
• Other Names: Ritchie Ian guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 90:Number 6(2020)
• Page Start: 88
• Page End: 93
• Publication Date: 2020-11-02
• Subjects: Sound‐Flash Illusion -- Parchment‐Skin Illusion -- JJ Gibson -- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum -- Glasgow -- Marta Tafalla -- Mark Rothko -- Getty Center -- Los Angeles -- Vittorio Gallese -- David Freedberg -- Lucio Fontana -- Heinrich Wölfflin -- Prolegomena on the Psychology of Architecture; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2636
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract: A museum or gallery is usually thought of as a space containing objects arranged in a chosen way. Understanding the multisensory factors that modulate an audience's experiences of artworks in their settings offers museum curators and architects opportunities to enhance visitors' sensory engagement with their collections. Barry C Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy, Centre for the Study of the Senses, School of Advanced Study, University of London, considers a number of ways this can happen.