Anatomy of the Passions

by François Delaporte

Book Overview

The study of facial expression and its musculature undertaken by Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne in 1862, an attempt to secure biological meaning in the natural language of the emotions, resulted in the pioneering M chanisme du physiognomie humaine. Duchenne, who used photography to document his experiments, inspired Charles Darwin's Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) and had a significant influence on artists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804758514
• ISBN13: 9780804758512
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"