Faces of a Face: Portraiture as a Means of Representing Faces

ISBN-13: 9783631795002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Ren?ta Kisonov?

Opis

The book focuses on face and portraiture regarding philosophical, aesthetical, cognitive, and anthropological attitudes. It represents the author's research on portrait recognition. She shows 11 portraits to study participants, while monitoring them with an eye tracker.

Spis treści

Face - facial perception - portraiture - representation - symbol - death of portraiture -context and meaning - functions of portrait

O autorze

Renáta Kisonová focuses on the problems of cognitive aesthetics and metaphysics. She studied philosophy at Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Trnava University. Her main research interest focuses on the problem of representing face on the portraits.