[PDF] Physiognomy At The Crossroad Of Magic Science And The Arts eBook

Author : Massimo Ciavolella
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111212746

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The essays in the volume examine how the study of a person's facial features and expressions, as indicative of ethnicity or character, has evolved from the crossroads of magic, religion and primitive medicine to our present-day preoccupation with

Author : Massimo Ciavolella
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2024-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3111240738

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The essays examine how the study of facial features or expressions as indicative of character or ethnicity, has evolved from the crossroad of magic, religion and primitive medicine to present-day cultural concern for wellness and beauty. In this context, the discoveries of cranio-facial neurophysiology and psychology and the practice of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery have a centuries-old relationship with physiognomy. As the study of outward appearances evolved from its classical roots and self-representations through 18th- and 19th-century adaptations in fiction and travelogues, it gradually became a scientific discipline. Along the way, physiognomy was associated with phrenology and craniology and promoted eugenic policies. Tainted with racial bigotry and biological determinism, it was trapped within questions of delinquency, monstrosity and posthumanism. Throughout its history, physiognomy played both positive and negative roles in the evolution of significant aspects of the socio-cultural order in the West that merit update and in-depth study. The contributions follow a chronological and intertwining sequence to encompass physiognomic expressions in art, literature, spirituality, science, philosophy and cultural studies.

Author : Various
Publisher : Dickens Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781447424284

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This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subjects of phrenology and physiognomy. The titles in this range include "Phrenology and Marriage" "A Guide to the Art of Phrenology" "Social Propensities as Seen in Phrenology" and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, "The Art of Physiognomy" contains information on the analysis and interpretation of head shapes. It is intended to illustrate aspects of physiognomy and serves as a guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject and understand the field in its historical context. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521022422

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This is a 2001 study of the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science.

Author : Martin Porter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0191534838

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In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb 'the eyes are the windows of the soul'. Through its magical prism, the language of eyes, faces, voices, laughs, walks, even stones, plants and animals, all became windows into the souls of other people, of oneself, of nature, and ultimately of God. Some saw in its words the perfect hieroglyphic language by which Adam had first named nature, which, when combined with the art of memory, could bring about a form of 'inner writing' or mystical self-transformation. Yet many others dismissed it as a collection of arbitrary conventions, superstitious enigmas, or 'gypsy' riddles. Embroiled in the religious persecution of the Reformation, rejected as a science during the Scientific Revolution, in the age of Enlightenment physiognomy came to be seen as nothing more than an amusing entertainment. But with the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, some began to see that physiognomy was no game and the flame of serious interest in physiognomy was once again rekindled. Combining book history and visual history, Dr Porter reconstructs this physiognomical eye, interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read and traces the wider intellectual, social, and cultural changes that contributed to the metamorphosis of this way of beholding oneself and the natural world from the Renaissance to the dawn of Romanticism.