Face : A Visual Odyssey Hardback
by Jessica (Founding Editor, Design Observer) Helfand
Part of the The MIT Press series
Hardback
Description
An elaborately illustrated A to Z of the face, from historical mugshots to Instagram posts. By turns alarming and awe-inspiring, Face offers up an elaborately illustrated A to Z-from the didactic anthropometry of the late-nineteenth century to the selfie-obsessed zeitgeist of the twenty-first. Jessica Helfand looks at the cultural significance of the face through a critical lens, both as social currency and as palimpsest of history.
Investigating everything from historical mugshots to Instagram posts, she examines how the face has been perceived and represented over time; how it has been instrumentalized by others; and how we have reclaimed it for our own purposes.
From vintage advertisements for a "nose adjuster" to contemporary artists who reconsider the visual construction of race, Face delivers an intimate yet kaleidoscopic adventure while posing universal questions about identity.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 171 color illus., 70 b&w illus.; 241 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:12/11/2019
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- ISBN:9780262043427
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 171 color illus., 70 b&w illus.; 241 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:12/11/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780262043427
