The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science: Syntheses in Art and Science (Leonardo Books)
Language: English
Published by Mit Pr, 2007
Series: Book 4 of 28 - Leonardo
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- Title
- The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science: Syntheses in Art and Science (Leonardo Books)
- Author
- Van Campen, Cretien
- Publisher
- Mit Pr
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262220814
- ISBN 13
- 9780262220811
- Series
- Book 4 of 28: Leonardo
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 synesthetesfrom 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 Scriabin, 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 sensea way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity.
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Review
-- -- Jan Baetens, Professor of Literary Studies at the Leuven University, Belgium
"... a gentle, insightful, often personal, account of coloured words, smells, tones, pains, even organisms, that will fascinate scientists, artists, synaesthetes and others. Slowly, this deep, seeming intractable, subjectivity yields to some phenomenology, simple questionnaires, elegant experiments, a dash of neuroimaging, and much thought and reflection." -- Chris McManus, Nature, Vol 450, 1 November 2007
"Van Campen is a social scientist with some synaesthesia, who has thought deeply about the phenomenon, read widely, consulted leading scientists, and interviewed and tested ordinary and artistic people with many types of synaesthesia. 'Cases have been reported of synaesthetes who feel coloured pain, hear odours, hear tastes, taste sounds, feel sounds on their skin, hear images, and taste images', van Campen explains. He delves into this complexity with authority, subtlety, and charm, and the result is a generally accessible, concisely written, and thoughtprovoking read."
-- Andrew Robinson, Lancet, December 1, 2007
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