Synesthesia and the Arts
- Author: Cavallaro, Dani
Synesthesia and the Arts
- Author: Cavallaro, Dani
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This study explores the relationship between synesthesia--the experience of a sensation in one perceptual domain triggering a sensation in another perceptual domain--and the arts (including painting, photography, music and literature). Its aim is twofold: to introduce readers as yet unfamiliar with synesthesia to this intriguing phenomenon by focusing on its impact on the creation and reception of art; and to alert readers already conversant with synesthesia in its many manifestations to its potential to encourage fresh ways of approaching art, of understanding the part played by our bodies in its production and receipt and, by extension, of reassessing our position in nature as humans.
Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1—Perspectives on Synesthesia: Actual Synesthesia and Artistic Synesthesia
- Types of Synesthesia
- Research and Debates
- Chapter 2—Creativity
- Experiments in Multi-Sensory Perception
- The Interplay of Music and the Visual Arts
- Varieties of Synesthetic Art
- Between pages 116 and 117 are eight color plates
- containing 13 photographs
- Chapter 3—Reception
- Synesthesia in the Eye of the Beholder
- Reception Theory, Gestalt Psychology
- and Phenomenology
- Sensory Reception and Memory
- Synesthesia and Metaphor
- Appendix: Cited Artists (Composers, Visual Artists, Writers)
- Bibliography
- Index
