Physiognomy Face Form And Modern Expression - Rochelle Rives

A Fascinating 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 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 We Value Other People.beginning With Nineteenth-century Caricatures Of Oscar Wildes Face, Rives Reasons That Modernist Modes Of Reading The Face Perceived It As A Manifestation Of Both Biologically Determined Traits And Scripted Forms Of Personality. Considering Faces Such As Sculptures Of Great Poets, Portraits Of Facially Wounded World War I Soldiers, W.