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Summary
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. Jes... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Anthropometry
- Biometrics + bias
- Caricature + close-ups
- Diagnosis
- Eugenics
- Facsimilies + fragility
- The gaze
- Heredity
- Identity
- Judgment
- Keepsakes
- Likenesses + lies
- Masks + mirrors
- Narcissism
- Othering
- Physiognomy
- Quackery
- Relatability
- Surveillance + spectatorship
- Typecasting
- Users + the uncanny
- Vanity
- Wit
- Xenophobia
- You
- Zeitgeist.