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Jul 9, 2021 · Marshall McLuhan understood television (TV) as a tactile medium. This understanding implied what Bruno Latour might call a ‘symmetrical’ conception of tactility. According to McLuhan, not only human actors are endowed with the sense of touch.
- Henning Schmidgen
- 2021
tactile values Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms Author(s): Michael Clarke. A term devised by the American art historian and *connoisseur Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) in his Florentine Painters of the Renaissance... ...
Tactile values. Term introduced into art criticism by Bernard Berenson in his essay Florentine Painters of the Renaissance (1896) to describe those qualities in a painting that stimulate the sense of touch. He thought that Giotto was the first master since classical antiquity whose painting demonstrated these qualities, which he considered to ...
May 1, 2015 · When the book on Florentine painters was reviewed in Science magazine, Berenson's idea of tactile values (the artist's ability to include in a painting an impression of the form, which our mind accepts as real) was commended as a pioneering attempt to apply psychology to the interpretation of artworks, but his explanation of what determines our ...
- Marek H. Dominiczak
- 2015
Although contentious, Berenson’s and Riegl’s theories of tactile values in art are suggestive of how in different cultural periods the tactile imagination might find expression through particular modes of visual representation.
This information adds significant substance to Berenson's ideas on tactile values. Berenson's "third dimension" is essentially a sense of temperature, pressure, vibration, and texture. And chances are the tactile imagination is inspired most, given the allocation of brain space and the density of recep-tors, by what the hand touches.
