Wilder, K and McPeake, A (Eds).
(2025)
Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Beyond the Visual broadens the discussion of multisensory ways of beholding contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on modes that transcend a dependency upon sight. A central premise is that a shift in the aesthetic engagement afforded by hybrid forms of contemporary art has the potential to open up new sensory and cognitive engagements for blind and partially blind people. This is a subject that has rarely been addressed within the literature on contemporary arts or disability studies. Bringing together leading international scholars and artists in the emerging field of ‘blindness arts’, including blind and partially blind artists, curators, advocates for inclusive practices and models of audio description, cognitive psychologists, and theorists of installation, performance and sound art, the book offers a detailed consideration of exemplars of such multisensory engagement, pre-eminently in works by blind or partially blind artists. In so doing, the book not only shifts the discussion on access and inclusivity – reconceiving access as integral to the creative process – but argues that this has the potential to enrich the experience of art for all beholders, moving beyond an often-unexamined reliance on vision.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-80008-885-6 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088856 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088856 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2025 Text © Authors, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner.This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use provided author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information:Wilder, K. and McPeake, A. (eds.). 2025. Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088856 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available athttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Blindness/partial blindness, Blindness arts, Contemporary art ,Installation and performance art, Audio description |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212375 |
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