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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 September 2005
- ISBN 9780199276578
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages388 pages
- Size 242x164x25 mm
- Weight 839 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones, 4 tables 0
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Short description:
In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. Dr Porter uses remnants of the highly illustrated and graffitied texts on physiognomy to interpret the way that these books were read and viewed, and trace the changes that took place between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of Romanticism.
MoreLong description:
In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb 'the eyes are the windows of the soul'. Through its magical prism, the language of eyes, faces, voices, laughs, walks, even stones, plants and animals, all became windows into the souls of other people, of oneself, of nature, and ultimately of God. Some saw in its words the perfect hieroglyphic language by which Adam had first named nature, which, when combined with the art of memory, could bring about a form of 'inner writing' or mystical self-transformation. Yet many others dismissed it as a collection of arbitrary conventions, superstitious enigmas, or 'gypsy' riddles.
Embroiled in the religious persecution of the Reformation, rejected as a science during the Scientific Revolution, in the age of Enlightenment physiognomy came to be seen as nothing more than an amusing entertainment. But with the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, some began to see that physiognomy was no game and the flame of serious interest in physiognomy was once again rekindled. Combining book history and visual history, Dr Porter reconstructs this physiognomical eye, interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read and traces the wider intellectual, social, and cultural changes that contributed to the metamorphosis of this way of beholding oneself and the natural world from the Renaissance to the dawn of Romanticism.
An excellent work.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
A Persistent Fisnomical Consciousness c.400BCE-c.400CE
The Bookish Face of Physiognomy in Early Modern Europe
The Troubling Emergence of the 'Egyptian' in Early Modern Europe
The Physiognomy Captured and Lost in a Book
Physiognomating by the Book
Living Graffiti
Conclusion: Fisnomy-to-Fisnomy
Bibliography
Index
