Human Touch
Human Touch Touch is our first sense. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the world; touch is how we connect.Drawing on artworks spanning four thousand years and stretching across…
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Human Touch
Touch is our first sense. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the world; touch is how we connect.Drawing on artworks spanning four thousand years and stretching across the globe, this book offers new ways of looking at the fundamental role of touch in the human experience. Through touch we make art, stake a claim to what we own and those we love, and express our faith, beliefs, and anger.
More than one hundred and fift lavish illustrations accompany the text, including drawings, paintings, prints, and sculpture by Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Carracci, Hogarth, Turner, Rodin, Degas, and Kollwitz, along with work by contemporary artists Judy Chicago, Frank In a series of essays, the authors explore anatomy and skin; the relationship between the brain, hand, and creativity; touch, desire, and possession; ideological touch; and reverence and iconoclasm.