Touch is our first sense. Through touch we make art, stake a claim
to what we own and those we love, express our faith, our belief,
our anger. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the
world; touch is how we connect. Drawing on works of art spanning
four thousand years and from across the globe, this book explores
the fundamental role of touch in human experience, and offers new
ways of looking. In a series of lavishly illustrated essays, the
authors explore anatomy and skin; the relationship between the
brain, hand, and creativity; touch, desire and possession;
ideological touch; reverence and iconoclasm. A final section
collects a range of reflections, historic and contemporary, on
touch. Objects range from anonymous ancient Egyptian limestone
sculpture, to medieval manuscripts and panel paintings, to
devotional and spiritual objects from across the world, to love
tokens and fede rings. Drawings, paintings, prints and sculpture by
Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Carracci, Hogarth, Turner, Rodin,
Degas, and Kollwitz are explored, along with work by contemporary
artists Judy Chicago, Frank Auerbach, Richard Long, the Chapman
Brothers, and Richard Rawlins. The events of 2020 have made us
newly alive to the preciousness and the dangers of touch, making
this exploration of our most fundamental sense particularly timely
and resonant.
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