Smell and Taste in Art: Suggestions towards a Systematic Approach

• Authors: Sauer, Christian Dieter

Abstracts

EN

The reflections outlined in this paper on smell and taste in modern and contemporary art are divided into three larger chapters: an introductory literature review is followed by a general discussion of sense perception in terms of philosophy, physiology, and intellectual history; and this forms the backdrop for the main body, in which eight different approaches to olfactory and gustatory art are proposed. These categories take different levels as their starting point: for instance, they illuminate the significance of smell and taste as materialities, they address aspects of the process of perception, they posit questions concerning the affect of smell and taste, they consider spatial and temporal aspects, and they discuss the relation between perception and knowledge. The main body of the paper is concerned with these categories and their respective theoretical background, also providing concrete examples of relevant works of art.

Keywords

EN

senses; synesthetic; smell; taste; perception; perception spatial aspect; perception – bodily aspect; perception – temporal aspect; presence; senses; physiology of the senses

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Ikonotheka
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 29
• Pages: 151-175

Dates

published

2020-09-13

Contributors

author

Sauer, Christian Dieter

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/2657-6015ik.29.5