Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 185 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates)
,
illustrations (some color), portraits.
ISBN:
9781461957218
,
1461957214
,
9780262285407
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0262285401
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9780262265003
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0262265001
Serie:
Leonardo
Inhalt:
"In The Hidden Sense, Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from both artistic and scientific perspectives, looking at accounts of individual experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature, and recent neurological research." "Van Campen reports that some studies define synesthesia as a brain impairment, a short circuit between two different areas. But synesthetes cannot imagine perceiving in any other way; many claim that synesthesia helps them in daily life. Van Campen investigates just what the function of synesthesia might be and what it might tell us about our own sensory perceptions. He examines the experiences of individual synesthetes - from Patrick, who sees music as images and finds the most beautiful ones spring from the music of Prince, to the schoolgirl Sylvia, who is surprised to learn that not everyone sees the alphabet in colors as she does. And he finds suggestions of synesthesia in the work of Seriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Poe, and Baudelaire." "What is synesthesia? It is not, van Campen concludes, an audiovisual performance, a literary technique, an artistic trend, or a metaphor. It is, perhaps, our hidden sense - a way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity."--Jacket.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780262220811
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ISBN 0262220814
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ISBN 9780262514071
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ISBN 0262514079
Sprache:
Englisch
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