{"product_id":"9781421448374-new-physiognomy","title":"The New Physiognomy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFace, Form, and Modern Expression\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdvances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret it. In \u003ci\u003eThe New Physiognomy, \u003c\/i\u003eRochelle 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde's 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. H. Auden's aging face, and Cindy Sherman's recent photographic self-portraits, Rives reframes how to read modernist works by Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Mina Loy, Henry Tonks, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41608615526497,"sku":"9781421448374","price":67.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28545905.jpg?v=1722686521","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781421448374-new-physiognomy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}