Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas Image: Book Cover
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Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas Image: Frontspiece "Touch is the oldest sense and the most urgent. . . It takes a troupe of receptors to make the symphonic delicacy we call a caress. . . Indeed to a very significant extent, a measure of the individual's development as a healthy human being is the extent to which he or she is freely able to embrace another. . to get, in a very real sense, in touch with others. The actually failed child grows into an individual who is not only physically awkward, but wo is all psychologically, behaviorally, awkward with them. Such persons are likely to be wanting in a tact which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as the 'ready and delicate sense of what is fitting and proper in dealing with others. . . There appears to be a very distinct carryover from tactile experience in infancy to tactful behavior in later life. It is fascinating that the word 'tact' derived from the Latin meaning 'touch.' What the world really means is to delicately 'touch' the other." "Touch" by Ashley Montagu
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas Image: Vibrations turn to Atoms and Atoms generate what we call Life; thus it happens that their grouping by the power of nature's affinity forms a living entity; and as the breath manifests through the form so the body becomes conscious; in his blood, in his brain cells, in his sin, infall planes of existence." -- Inayat Khan
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas Image: The container, the containment, receptacle of potentialities: the vibration within the touch, the timbre within the voice, the essence within the words affecting, transforming. All matter differing frequencies of vibration -- progresso the heart -- Vibration, Consciousness, Conscience. . . .
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas Image: "We are spirits and spirits should be connected with the superhuman, with the cosmos and with God. . . but such music is very rare. Today most music is just physical and speaks to us only in the animal center." -- K. Stockhuasen Opaque into Transparent Coarse into Subtle Gross into Fine Carbon into diamond Silver into gold Head into soul Some secrets should be told. . . .
Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . . by Audra Skuodas
  • Audra Skuodas
  • Touch is the Oldest Sense and the Most Urgent. . ., 1998
  • String, beads, ink, vintage book pages, rag paper, foam core, textured paper, vellum, pencil
  • 16.5 x 13.5 x 0.75 in
  • Inv: 000161BOOK
  • Available

Collection: Artist Books x

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Handbound and illustrated artist book with text by artist and quotes from Ashley Montagu, Inayat Khan, and K. Stockhausen

  • Subject Matter: Intersect of Eastern Philosophy, Western Philosophy and Social Science
  • Collections: Artist Books
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