Art Scents - Shiner, Larry
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In the last twenty years there has been a marked increase in artists using smells in their works at the same time that scents are being used to accompany plays, films, and music. There is also an increase in ambient scenting in stores and hotels and leading chefs are adding unusual scents to cuisine. The book explores these olfactory activities and the aesthetic and ethical issues they raise as well as answering the traditional disparagement of the sense of smell by leading intellectuals such as Kant, Darwin, and Freud, drawing on current science, social science, and humanities as well as literature.…mehr

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In the last twenty years there has been a marked increase in artists using smells in their works at the same time that scents are being used to accompany plays, films, and music. There is also an increase in ambient scenting in stores and hotels and leading chefs are adding unusual scents to cuisine. The book explores these olfactory activities and the aesthetic and ethical issues they raise as well as answering the traditional disparagement of the sense of smell by leading intellectuals such as Kant, Darwin, and Freud, drawing on current science, social science, and humanities as well as literature.
Autorenporträt
Larry Shiner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, his research focuses on the history of the concept of art, the relation of art to craft and design, the aesthetics of museum architecture, the aesthetics of smell, and the role of literary form in writing history. His writings on those topics include numerous articles in major journals and two books: The Secret Mirror: Literary Form and History in Tocqueville's Recollections (Cornell University Press, 1988) and The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (University of Chicago Press, 2001).