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- Title
The Touch of Meaning: Researching Art between Text and Texture.
- Authors
Cipriani, Gerald
- Abstract
The academic world, at least in the West, has traditionally always been suspicious when it comes to introducing in its quest for knowledge notions of materiality, touch, texture, or "haptics" - in other words what is generally associated with sensory-experience. In the human sciences and the artistic fields the practice of research has always privileged "textual reason" over "sensory texture," the textual over the textural. Only in the recent past have so-called postmodern theories of all kinds attempted to overcome the hierarchical dichotomy between discursive reason and embodied thought. Unfortunately, this has very often created an unprecedented ragbag of epistemological confusions and identity crises. This essay shall attempt to explain and clarify the epistemological nature of materiality, touch, texture, or "haptics," and the role it can play in academic research in the artistic fields with particular reference to ideas developed by French philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas.
- Subjects
ART; TEXTURE (Art); LETTER pictures
- Publication
Janus Head, 2016, Vol 15, Issue 2, p159
- ISSN
1524-2269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/jh201615231