The Visage, Voice and Void in the Community

Art, Senses and (e-)Spaces of Contemporary Semiosis
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-02668-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined not only as the human physical constitution but also 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 the 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barbotto, Silvia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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