Touching Vision 2.023

The book's aim is to show how art can enrich a person's life. 22 essays starting from the themes of restoration and fine arts are arranged chronologically, with the focus slowly shifting towards generality, from disciplinary demarcation to inter- and transdisciplinary openness, as dictated by the spirit of the times. The visual updating of the author's cover design from 2004 points to "updates" both unintentional and intentional, but always inevitable, firmly rooted in the human desire to outwit the transience of time. Thus, the content of an essay may be critical, some essays creep into the poetic, some into the caricatural, nothing has the claim to permanence of an abstract truth, and everything serves to deepen the pleasure of art.

Hiltrud Schinzel is a restorer (Magister Artium, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria), art historian (PhD with Max Imdahl RUB, Bochum, Germany) and artist. Her interests are contemporary art, the connections between art and science, and the mediation of artistic concerns. Main publication Touching Vision 2004, Touching Vision 2.023 is a continuation through 22 essays written between 2004 and 2022.