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By associating various approaches (e.g. linguistics, and genetics, as well as epistemocritical, intertextual and inter-aesthetic theories), the works published in this review oppose discourse and representation by questioning the relationship between literature and the arts to other knowledge systems coming from the social sciences as well as material or natural sciences. Individual volumes of the review center around either a certain discipline or particular question while others are transversal and cover several disciplines. Articles may also address the process of creation and aesthetics or center around works themselves, while mobilizing various analytical methods.

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20 | 2023
Figures du sentir

Percevoir, connaître et représenter l’expérience sensorielle du Moyen-Âge à la période contemporaine
Edited by Marta Battisti, Viktoria Von Hoffmann and Érika Wicky

This special issue on Picturing the Senses explores processes of representing sensory experiences through a variety of visual means. The contributions included in this volume reexamine the visual representations of sensory experiences by going beyond symbolic and allegoric analyses of depictions of the senses. They are innovative in three ways. First, they place humans, as sentient beings, at the core of the analysis. The authors of this volume showcase diverse ways in which sensory perception has been depicted, often serving distinct purposes, with a focus on representing individuals whose experiences are inherently embodied. Second, they encourage readers to move beyond a mere descriptive commentary on visual references to the senses. Instead, they prompt a consideration of the sensory context surrounding the production and reception of artworks. This issue thus highlights the fruitful application of the concept of experience to the analysis of sensory figures, which enables connections between the senses, emotions, and knowledge. Third, the contributions in this volume emphasise that the study of the senses in visual cultures requires the adoption of an inter-sensory approach. In turn, exploring depictions of the senses and elucidating their reciprocal interactions entails the implementation of interdisciplinary approaches, crossing the contributions of different fields of research, in particular the history of the senses, art, and knowledge.

  • Marta Battisti, Viktoria von Hoffmann and Érika Wicky
    Introduction [Full text]
    Figures du sentir. Percevoir, connaître et représenter l’expérience sensorielle du Moyen Âge à la période contemporaine
    Picturing the Senses: Perceiving, Knowing, and Representing Sensory Experiences from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
  • Marlène Béghin
    Enjeux des théories et enluminures des sens internes dans Li ars d’amour, de vertu et de boneurté (vers 1300)
    Perceiving through images. Internal senses theories and illuminations in Li ars d’amour, de vertu et de boneurté (c. 1300)
  • Roisin Astell
    Image as Speculum [Full text]
    Depicting Physical and Spiritual Vision in a fourteenth-century illuminated Tractatus Moralis de Oculo (c. 1274-1289)
    Image comme Speculum. Représentation de la vision physique et spirituelle dans une manuscrit du quatorzième siècle: Tractatus Moralis de Oculo (c. 1274-1289)
  • Martine Clouzot
    Musicalités des marginalia, expériences sensorielles et esthétisation du monde (autour de 1300)
    Figurating the sense of hearing. Musicality of marginalia, sensory experiences and aesthetisation of the world
  • Mila Maselli
    Imaginer et représenter le goût dans la médecine de la première Modernité
    Linguam in Obscura Compositione Latitare. Imagining and Representing Taste in Early Modern Medicine
  • Pauline Lafille
    “Con attenzione degli orecchi”: Phonic Warfare in Renaissance Art
  • Pierre-Henry Bas
    Traduire sur le papier un monde visuel et sensoriel
    The Art of Fencing (15th-17th centuries). Translating onto paper a visual and sensory world
  • Sasha Rasmussen
    A woman’s perspective on early twentieth-century Russia
    Une approche genrée de la sensorialité dans les œuvres de Zinaïda Serebriakova. Une perspective féminine sur la Russie du début xxe siècle
  • Cristóbal F. Barria Bignotti
    L’interrelation des expériences tactiles et optiques dans les œuvres d’Antonio Quintana et de Lygia Clark
    Tactile communities. The interrelation between tactile and optical experiences in the works of Antonio Quintana and Lygia Clark
  • Lizzie Marx, Mathias Zinnen, Sofia Collette Ehrich, William Tullett, Cecilia Bembibre and Inger Leemans
    Voir l’odeur. “Sourcer” l’imagerie olfactive à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle
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