Open AccessSome Touching Thoughts and Wishful Thinking
Author(s) -
Georgina Kleege
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
disability studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2159-8371
pISSN - 1041-5718
DOI - 10.18061/dsq.v33i3.3741
Subject(s) - wishful thinking , blindness , aesthetics , key (lock) , art , visual arts , psychology , computer science , cognitive psychology , medicine , computer security , optometry
I describe a recent touch tour I took at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and suggest that since sighted visitors do not enjoy the opportunity to touch works of art, museums should collect the observations of blind visitors to expand cultural knowledge by including tactile aesthetics. Key words: blindness, blind museum access, Museum of Modern Art, tactile aesthetics.