Full Description
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
