Thesis
Building multisensory awareness in arts participation
Master of Arts (M.A.), Drexel University
Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00000062
Abstract
This culminating project explores multisensory engagement in the creation and observation of art, as a means to deconstruct the visual dominance that art portrays in Western culture. Through a series of self-directed arts-based experientials the author, who identifies from a Western-based culture and through an art therapy framework, explored her own sensory dependencies and biases and challenged them by focusing on highlighting other sensory modalities and integrating new systems of perception through creative tasks. This author argues that through the multisensory participation of creating and observing art, one is able to build awareness of their self, their relationships, and their environment. The author argues that this built awareness grows opportunity to engage in one's creative expression through a more competent and inclusive art therapy approach, and allows for more holistic stimulation to one's social and psychological health. This culminating project includes a review of the literature that focuses on multisensory perceptions of art from biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives including the Western paradigm of sensory hierarchy in which vision is centered. In addition to critiquing the perceived dominance of the visual sense in Western art, the literature review also studied the qualities of multimodal and synesthetic sensory engagement in interdisciplinary studies and theories including those within the fields of neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, art history, arth exhibition, art education, and art therapy.
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- Title
- Building multisensory awareness in arts participation
- Creators
- Cara Elise Hertneky
- Contributors
- Natalie Carlton (Advisor) - Drexel University, Creative Arts Therapies
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- iv, 89 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies; College of Nursing and Health Professions; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991014738849604721