The Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features

by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi and Tiffany Clarke Harrison

A broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper meaning from our looks has compelled humans for millennia. How do you read a face? For thousands of years, artists, philosophers, and scientists have explored the question of what our outer appearance might reveal about our inner selves. In The Language of the Face , a marvelously comprehensive exploration of the pseudoscience of physiognomy, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262047535
• ISBN13: 9780262047531
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"