Physiognomy in Profile

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138368
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (383 download)

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Book Synopsis Physiognomy in Profile by : Melissa Percival

Download or read book Physiognomy in Profile written by Melissa Percival and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Physiognomy in Profile affirms and assesses Lavater's contribution to European culture in the two hundred years after his death. It examines how Lavater's vision of physiognomy as a viable method of interpreting the modern world has been repeatedly affirmed and challenged. Previous monographs on Lavater have tended to focus on one particular theme, discipline, or historical period, but this study deliberately adopts a cross-disciplinary approach, and covers a broad historical time frame. Some widely different material is juxtaposed (painting, photography, fiction, journalism, medical texts) in order to explore recurring issues in physiognomical thought." "Essays are arranged in chronological order so that the reader can gain a sense of the shared preoccupations of Lavater's contemporaries and successors. But the book may also be read thematically."--BOOK JACKET.

Reading the Face

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Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1902636937
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading the Face by : Norbert Glas

Download or read book Reading the Face written by Norbert Glas and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy traveling to school by streetcar, Norbert Glas often passed the time by studying the faces of his fellow passengers, pondering the significance of the shapes and contours of their noses, eyes, and mouths. Later in life, after becoming a medical doctor and a student of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, Glas gained greater insight into the mysteries of human physiognomy. In Reading the Face, the first translation into English of his seminal work, Glas begins by defining the three parts of the human face and explaining the importance of their relative proportions. A face that is more pronounced in any of these areas tends to indicate certain personality traits and specific physiological characteristics. People with a strong mouth and chin, for example, tend to have a strong will and an active, driven, and assertive nature. With the help of many photos and drawings, Glas presents the physiognomy of three basic types and analyses the specifics of the head, forehead, ears, eyes, mouth, and nose. Reading the Face will be valuable to doctors, teachers, and anyone who wants to better understand, accept, and love others.

About Faces

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674054400
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (544 download)

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Book Synopsis About Faces by : Sharrona Pearl

Download or read book About Faces written by Sharrona Pearl and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nineteenth-century Londoners looked at each other, what did they see, and how did they want to be seen? Sharrona Pearl reveals the way that physiognomy, the study of facial features and their relationship to character, shaped the way that people understood one another and presented themselves. Physiognomy was initially a practice used to get information about others, but soon became a way to self-consciously give information--on stage, in print, in images, in research, and especially on the street. Moving through a wide range of media, Pearl shows how physiognomical notions rested on instinct and honed a kind of shared subjectivity. She looks at the stakes for framing physiognomy--a practice with a long history--as a science in the nineteenth century. By showing how physiognomy gave people permission to judge others, Pearl holds up a mirror both to Victorian times and our own.

The Pocket Lavater, Or, The Science of Physiognomy

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Total Pages : 236 pages
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Book Synopsis The Pocket Lavater, Or, The Science of Physiognomy by : Johann Caspar Lavater

Download or read book The Pocket Lavater, Or, The Science of Physiognomy written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Human Faces, what They Mean

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Book Synopsis Human Faces, what They Mean by : Joseph Simms

Download or read book Human Faces, what They Mean written by Joseph Simms and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Practical and Familiar View of the Science of Physiognomy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis A Practical and Familiar View of the Science of Physiognomy by : Thomas Cooke

Download or read book A Practical and Familiar View of the Science of Physiognomy written by Thomas Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on Physiognomy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays on Physiognomy by : Johann Caspar Lavater

Download or read book Essays on Physiognomy written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Physiognomy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Book Synopsis Physiognomy by : Leila Holt Lomax

Download or read book Physiognomy written by Leila Holt Lomax and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351193694
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy by : Sibylle Erle

Download or read book Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy written by Sibylle Erle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Blake never travelled to the continent, yet his creation myth is far more European than has ever been acknowledged. The painter Henry Fuseli introduced Blake to traditional European thinking, and Blake responded to late 18th century body-theory in his Urizen books (1794-95), which emerged from his professional work as a copy-engraver on Henry Hunter's translation of Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1789-98). Lavater's work contains hundreds of portraits and their physiognomical readings. Blake, Fuseli, Joshua Reynolds and their contemporaries took a keen interest in the ideas behind physiognomy in their search for the right balance between good likeness and type in portraits. Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy demonstrates how the problems occurring during the production of the Hunter translation resonate in Blake's treatment of the Genesis story. Blake takes us back to the creation of the human body, and interrogates the idea that 'God created man after his own likeness.' He introduces the 'Net of Religion', a device which presses the human form into material shape, giving it personality and identity. As Erle shows, Blake's startlingly original take on the creation myth is informed by Lavater's pursuit of physiognomy: the search for divine likeness, traced in the faces of their contemporary men."

Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429557
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Book Synopsis Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body by : Xing Wang

Download or read book Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body written by Xing Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.) texts of a well-known body divination technique ‘xiangshu’ (physiognomy), and investigates its unique ‘somatic cosmology’ in Ming religious and intellectual context.

The Body as a Mirror of the Soul

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Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702926
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Book Synopsis The Body as a Mirror of the Soul by : Lisa Devriese

Download or read book The Body as a Mirror of the Soul written by Lisa Devriese and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physiognomy, the history of racial classifications, and the interplay between natural philosophy, medicine, and ethics The idea of the body as a mirror of the soul has fascinated mankind throughout history. Being able to see through an individual, and drawing conclusions on their character solely based on a selection of external features, is the subject of physiognomy, and has a long tradition running well into recent times. However, the pre-modern, especially medieval background of this discipline has remained underexplored. The selected case studies in this volume each contribute to a better understanding of the history of physiognomy from antiquity to the Renaissance, and offer discussions on unedited treatises and on the application, development, and reception of this field of knowledge, as well as on visual sources inspired by physiognomic theory. Contributors: Enikő Békés (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Joël Biard (University of Tours), Lisa Devriese (KU Leuven), Maria Fernanda Ferrini (University of Macerata), Christophe Grellard (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Luís Campos Ribeiro (University of Lisbon), Maria Michela Sassi (University of Pisa), Oleg Voskoboynikov (Higher School of Economics Moscow), Steven J. Williams (New Mexico Highlands University), Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa), Gabriella Zuccolin (University of Pavia)

The Physiognomy

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473226902
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book The Physiognomy written by Jeffrey Ford and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Well-Built City, Master Drachton Below's power is absolute, and he will not hesitate to use it. His primary method of control is through his physiognomists, who are trained to read a person's face and body, perceiving that person's past and secrets-and even events yet to come. These seers are the judges and jury. Now Drachton has found something that could extend his reign for eternity: a fruit that bestows immortality. To investigate its whereabouts, Below sends cold, collected physiognomist Cley to the remote mining town of Anamasobia. One at a time Cley interrogates the townspeople, performing his usual fact finding without issue. That is, until he meets the beautiful and bright Arla, who harbors a secret that could potentially turn Cley's world upside down-and topple the Well-Built City itself. A Kafkaesque journey into the unknown, The Physiognomy is an award-winning trip through a land where the line between reality and imagination is constantly blurred.

Essays on Physiognomy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays on Physiognomy by : Johann Caspar Lavater

Download or read book Essays on Physiognomy written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Read Character in Features, Forms, & Faces

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Total Pages : 138 pages
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Book Synopsis How to Read Character in Features, Forms, & Faces by : Henry Frith

Download or read book How to Read Character in Features, Forms, & Faces written by Henry Frith and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on Physiognomy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays on Physiognomy by : Johann Caspar Lavater

Download or read book Essays on Physiognomy written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521022422
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture by : Lucy Hartley

Download or read book Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture written by Lucy Hartley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 2001 study of the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science.

Essays on Physiognomy

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Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Physiognomy written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: