Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher:
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Category : Physiognomy
Languages : en
Pages :
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Essays on Physiognomy
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiognomy
Languages : en
Pages :
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Essays on Physiognomy
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Physiognomy, Or, The Corresponding Analogy Between the Conformation of the Features and the Ruling Passions of the Mind
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher:
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Category : Face
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Essays on Physiognomy
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher:
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Category : Facial expression
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy
Author: Sibylle ErlePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351193694
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"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."
Essays on Physiognomy
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher: London : W. Tegg
ISBN:
Category : Physiognomy
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Author: Lucy HartleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521022422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is a 2001 study of the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science.
Essays on Physiognomy
Author: John Caspar LavaterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385210739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Photography in the Third Reich: Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda
Author: Christopher WebsterPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783749172
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continued to practice as photographers throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich. The volume explores, through photographic reproductions and accompanying analysis, diverse aspects of photography during the Third Reich, ranging from the influence of Modernism, the qualitative effect of propaganda photography, and the utilisation of technology such as colour film, to the photograph as ideological metaphor. With an emphasis on the idealised representation of the German body and the role of physiognomy within this representation, the book examines how select photographers created and developed a visual myth of the ‘master race’ and its antitheses under the auspices of the Nationalist Socialist state. Photography in the Third Reich approaches its historical source photographs as material culture, examining their production, construction and proliferation. This detailed and informative text will be a valuable resource not only to historians studying the Third Reich, but to scholars and students of film, history of art, politics, media studies, cultural studies and holocaust studies.
The Pocket Lavater; or, The Science of Physiognomy
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pocket Lavater; or, The Science of Physiognomy" (To which is added an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy) by Johann Caspar Lavater, Giambattista della Porta. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.