Mediality of Smells / Médialité des odeurs: 47 (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts) - Softcover

 
9781789976069: Mediality of Smells / Médialité des odeurs: 47 (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts)

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The study of scents and all things olfactory is thriving, a sign of our current interest in direct and immediate experiences of reality. This volume contributes to the discussion by focusing on the mediality of smells, the mechanisms by which scents circulate and are diffused, explored across different cultures and historical periods.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean-Alexandre Perras holds a PhD in French literature from the University of Montreal and the University of Paris 8. His thesis, L’Exception exemplaire: inventions et usages du génie (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), was published in 2015. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, where his research focuses on the innovation strategies of eighteenth-century hairdressers.

Érika Wicky holds a PhD in art history from the University of Montreal. After her dissertation on nineteenth-century visual culture published under the title Les paradoxes du détail: Voir, savoir, representer à l’ère de la photographie (2015), she dedicated her research to the history of olfactory culture (eighteenth to twentieth century). She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow (University Lumière Lyon 2 / LARHRA), where she studies the smell of paint crossing history of art and history of sciences.

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