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Art Scents - Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts (Hardcover)
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Art Scents - Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts (Hardcover)
Series: Thinking Art
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Although the arts of incense and perfume making are among the
oldest of human cultural practices, it is only in the last two
decades that the use of odors in the creation of art has begun to
attract attention under the rubrics of 'olfactory art' or 'scent
art.' Contemporary olfactory art ranges from gallery and museum
installations and the use of scents in music, film, and drama, to
the ambient scenting of stores and the use of scents in cuisine.
All these practices raise aesthetic and ethical issues, but there
is a long-standing philosophical tradition, most notably
articulated in the work of Kant and Hegel, which argues that the
sense of smell lacks the cognitive capacity to be a vehicle for
either serious art or reflective aesthetic experience. This neglect
and denigration of the aesthetic potential of smell was further
reinforced by Darwin's and Freud's views of the human sense of
smell as a near useless evolutionary vestige. Smell has thus been
widely neglected within the philosophy of art. Larry Shiner's
wide-ranging book counters this tendency, aiming to reinvigorate an
interest in smell as an aesthetic experience. He begins by
countering the classic arguments against the aesthetic potential of
smell with both philosophical arguments and evidence from
neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, history, linguistics, and
literature. He then draws on this empirical evidence to explore the
range of aesthetic issues that arise in each of the major areas of
the olfactory arts, whether those issues arise from the use of
scents with theater and music, sculpture and installation,
architecture and urban design, or avant-garde cuisine. Shiner gives
special attention to the art status of perfumes and to the ethical
issues that arise from scenting the body, the ambient scenting of
buildings, and the use of scents in fast food. Shiner's book
provides both philosophers and other academic readers with not only
a comprehensive overview of the aesthetic issues raised by the
emergence of the olfactory arts, but also shows the way forward for
further studies of the aesthetics of smell.
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