Ask HN: Where are all the touch-based art forms? 9 by joegibbs | 8 comments on Hacker News. For every major sense but touch there's a major form of art. For vision, our most dominant sense, there is literature, painting, sculpture and film. For hearing there is music. For smell there is perfumery. For taste there are the culinary arts. Touch seems like the odd one out - it's playing second fiddle to taste in food, and to appearance in sculpture and clothing. You only very rarely find some artwork where the main draw is the tactile experience. Why is this?