Guardare o toccare? Un’incertezza herderiana

In the tradition of Western aesthetics and visual culture the practice of touching works of art has always been considered  inappropriate and improper, if not dangerous: "You can watch, but do not touch" is the canonic rule in the institutionalized spaces of museums and galleries. At the s...

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Main Author: Andrea Pinotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2012-05-01
Series:Aisthesis
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Online Access:http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/10953
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spelling doaj-473dd19e449c4334a4280f2637cfcf932020-11-25T01:10:56ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662012-05-012110.13128/Aisthesis-109539895Guardare o toccare? Un’incertezza herderianaAndrea PinottiIn the tradition of Western aesthetics and visual culture the practice of touching works of art has always been considered  inappropriate and improper, if not dangerous: "You can watch, but do not touch" is the canonic rule in the institutionalized spaces of museums and galleries. At the same time, touching has been assimilated into the practice of looking itself, in the form of a "touching eye", a "tactile gaze" or "haptic vision". In my paper I will examine Herder's doctrine of sculpture as a crucial theoretical moment in which the oscillation between a real effective touch and a mere virtual and imaginative tactile experience of the artwork has generated a complex series of consequences for the following art theory (Riegl, Wölfflin, Berenson and others).<strong></strong>http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/10953HapticOpticSculptureHerder
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Guardare o toccare? Un’incertezza herderiana
Aisthesis
Haptic
Optic
Sculpture
Herder
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title Guardare o toccare? Un’incertezza herderiana
title_short Guardare o toccare? Un’incertezza herderiana
title_full Guardare o toccare? Un’incertezza herderiana
title_fullStr Guardare o toccare? Un’incertezza herderiana
title_full_unstemmed Guardare o toccare? Un’incertezza herderiana
title_sort guardare o toccare? un’incertezza herderiana
publisher Firenze University Press
series Aisthesis
issn 2035-8466
publishDate 2012-05-01
description In the tradition of Western aesthetics and visual culture the practice of touching works of art has always been considered  inappropriate and improper, if not dangerous: "You can watch, but do not touch" is the canonic rule in the institutionalized spaces of museums and galleries. At the same time, touching has been assimilated into the practice of looking itself, in the form of a "touching eye", a "tactile gaze" or "haptic vision". In my paper I will examine Herder's doctrine of sculpture as a crucial theoretical moment in which the oscillation between a real effective touch and a mere virtual and imaginative tactile experience of the artwork has generated a complex series of consequences for the following art theory (Riegl, Wölfflin, Berenson and others).<strong></strong>
topic Haptic
Optic
Sculpture
Herder
url http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/10953
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