The Visage, Voice and Void in the Community

Art, Senses and (e-)Spaces of Contemporary Semiosis

Silvia Barbotto (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-02668-6 (ISBN)

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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined as the human physical constitution in a metaphorical and cultural sense, and its connection with society. This book will interest specialists in the fields of visual semiotics, languages of art, creative industries and cultural heritage, humanities and philosophy.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined not only as the human physical constitution, but in a metaphorical and cultural sense, and its connection with society.

Bridging the analogue and the digital, the face is examined, step by step, from multiple perspectives and analysed within a qualitative–semiotic framework. With art as the underlying paradigm, semiotics as the founding discipline, and the face as subject of study, the author positions the face as a distinct landscape, offering the tools to study the metaphorical face and space as a panorama. Tracing historical conceptions of the face, along with the iconography and artefacts associated with it, the author follows an experimental and abductive methodology that culminates in a complex constellation of insights on the subject.

This book will interest specialists in the fields of visual semiotics, languages of art, creative industries and cultural heritage, humanities and philosophy.

Silvia Barbotto is researcher and artist, adjunct professor at University of Turin, Italy.

Prologo Ugo Volli

Introduction

Part 1: From Phisical To (q)Face

1. Mutable topography: physiognomy and pathognomy

2. Of faces and traces: a mutable topography

3. (q)field, synthetic data and hallucinated portraits

Part 2: From Masking To Enacting Face

4. Wearing the self: performativity and masks

5. Care, memory and intersubjective transmission

Part 3: From Body To Space Face

6. Carving emptiness: on breath and wave

7. Intra-action, proto-voice and art

8. Carving emptiness: on space and wave

Conclusion

Epilogue

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
Zusatzinfo	6 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 31 Halftones, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-041-02668-4 / 1041026684
ISBN-13	978-1-041-02668-6 / 9781041026686
Zustand	Neuware