The New Physiognomy: Face, Form, and Modern Expression

by Rochelle Rives

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421448386
• ISBN13: 9781421448381
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher