A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression.
Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret it. In The New Physiognomy, Rochelle Rives roots contemporary facial dilemmas in a more expansive timeline of modernist engagements with the face to argue that facial ambiguity is essential to how we value other people.
Beginning with nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde's face, Rives reasons that modernist modes of reading the face perceived it as a manifestation of both biologically determined traits and scripted forms of personality. Considering faces such as sculptures of great poets, portraits of facially wounded World War I soldiers, W.
H. Auden's aging face, and Cindy Sherman's recent photographic self-portraits, Rives reframes how to read modernist works by Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Mina Loy, Henry Tonks, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
| ISBN: | 9781421448381 |
| Publication date: | 9th April 2024 |
| Author: | Rochelle Rives |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Hopkins Studies in Modernism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literature: history and criticism |
A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression.Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret it. In The New Physiognomy, Rochelle Rives roots contemporary facial dilemmas in a more expansive timeline of modernist engagements with the face to argue that facial ambiguity is essential to how we value other people.Beginning with nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde's face, Rives reasons that modernist modes of reading the face perceived it as a manifestation of both biologically determined traits and scripted forms of personality.
The New Physiognomy features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism
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The New Physiognomy was written by Rochelle Rives and published by Johns Hopkins University Press
The New Physiognomy has 264 pages
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